• Most searches are case insensitive• Search for French cuisine will bring up sites
about ‘French’ and ‘cuisine’• Using quote marks will bring up information
about the topic you want:
“French cuisine”
Use a minus sign to remove topics you don’t want:
“holiday-Spain-Japan-Germany”
- will exclude those destinations you don’t want
To find related topics use a tilde: ~So, to search for terms associated with money:
“~money”
This will bring up associated topics such as ‘gold’ and ‘currency’
Use the words OR (in capitals and no gaps):
“ducksORgeeseORswans”
This will bring up all three topics
Missing words
If you can’t remember a missing word replace it
with a * Such as:
“bridge over *waters”
Time
To find the correct time somewhere else:
“time in New York”
The first line which appears will be the correct time.
Weather
Just type in what you want:
“weather in Paris”
You will get the correct result and a forecast for the next few days.
Advanced search
Don’t forget to use the advanced search. You can scroll down and find this at the bottom of
the search page.
Within a range
To find something within a range of dates put 2 full stops between them:
“best books 2002..2007”
“cars 1970..1990”
If you want to locate a ready-made PowerPoint then state your topic and put ppt after it:
“Romeo and Juliet ppt”
Page title
To search for page title try:
“intitle”For example: searching for “camera” gives 2.7 billion results but “intitle:camera” gives 364,000remember to put a colon between the two words.
Example
If you want to find a pdf from a government department relating to GST between 2011-2012 try a
single search like this:
“site:govt.nz filetype:pdf intitle:gst 2011..2012”
Try these search engines:
www.sweetsearch.com
www.searchcube.com
www.dogpile.com
www.thesearchenginelist.com
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