What You Get is What You Asked

Tips & trick using Google search engine

What is Google?

Google is owned by Google, Inc. whose mission statement is to "organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful".

The largest search engine on the web, Google receives several hundred million queries each day through its various services

Google History

Google began as a research project in January 1996 by two Ph.D. students at Stanford University, California.They hypothesized that a search engine that analyzed the relationships between websites would produce better results than existing techniques.

Tips & tricks

Tips #1

Types OR beetwen the word you want to search

Example:Recycle steel OR iron (Find information on recycling steel or recycling iron)

Tips #2

Use quote-mark (“) to search the exact phrase

Example:“Pusat pelatihan bahasa”(Find the exact phrase pusat pelatihan bahasa)

Tips #3

Use minus (-) to search the word A but NOT the word B

Example:salsa –dance(find the word salsa but NOT the word dance)

Tips #4

Use tilde (~) to search glossaries about something

Example:Castle ~glossaries(glossaries about castles, as well as dictonaries, lists of terms, terminology, etc.)

Tips #5

Use dash (-) to show all forms of the term, whether spelled as a single word, a phrase

Example:fortune-telling

Tips #6

Types define: to provide definitions for words, phrases, and acronyms from the Web.

Example:define:corruption(Find definitions for corruption from the Web

Tips #7

Types site: to search only one website or domain.

Example:scholarsip site:www.ugm.ac.id (Search for information on scholarship provided by the Gadjah Mada University.)

Tips #8

Types filetype: to find documents of the specified type.

Example:Thesis Linguistic filetype:pdf (Find the thesis about linguistic in PDF format.)

Tips #9

Types link: to find linked pages, i.e., show pages that point to the URL

Example:link:pramono.com (Find pages that link to Mr. Pramono’s website.)

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