Search Tricks
Google Basics
Beyond Google
Uniquely Google
Google Frivolity
100
When looking at search results the feature on the left that limits the results to pictures.
What is images?
100
Most important method Google uses to determine the order of results to your query.
What is page rank?
100
Largest search engine after Google. Best way to search a specific industry, topic, type of content is use a vertical search engine.
What is YouTube?
100
Animal that shares the same name with the Google program that indexes the web.
What is spider?
100
Syntax for local time in London.
"Local time London"
200
The punctuation marks at the beginning and end of the search terms to make sure results are for the exact phrase.
What are quotation marks?
200
The syntax to limit your search to one site (e.g., if you want to search just the nytimes.com site).
What is site: [domain]? For NY Times it is site: nytimes.com
200
World's largest digital library of education literature.
What is ERIC (www.eric.ed.gov), yet another part of the invisible web.
200
The description of a URL that pulls the information from the page body, open directory, or meta description.
What is a snippet?
200
Search term to track flight status of Delta flight 566.
What is "Delta flight 566?"
300
Way to search for scholarly literature with Google.
What is Google Scholar?
300
How to limit your search to government sites only.
What is site: .gov?
300
Darkest web unreachable by Google.
What is the invisible web?
300
The method that uses the * symbol.
What is proximity searching? Excellent search method to teach children.
300
Convert currency for 25 US dollars to Euros.
What is "25 U.S. dollars in Euros"
400
Syntax for anti-virus, but not software.
[anti-virus -software]?
400
Search technique that limits or combines words/phrases using the words AND, OR, NOT.
What is boolean searching? For example, [New England Patriots 2001 or 2003] query will give you results about either one of these years, whereas [ New England Patriots 2001 2003 ] (without the OR) will show pages that include both years on the same page. For not use query [New England Patriots 2001 2003 -2002]
400
Command to search inside a specific web page for a word or phrase.
What is CTRL +F?
400
The URL where you use a Google service to find electronic copies of books out of copyright and search inside them.
What is http://books.google.com/?
400
Syntax for twenty-five percent of twenty using Google
What is [25% of 20]?
500
The wildcard symbol that Google treats as a placeholder for any unknown term(s) and then find the best matches.
What is the * symbol?
500
The feature under "More search tools" on your results page that shows difficulty of the page.
What is a Reading level?
500
Type of searching technique students have the most difficulty mastering.
What is appropriate keyword?
500
Search string to find documents with eating in the document but only on sites with healthy in the URL.
What is [ inurl:healthy eating ]?
500
How you search safely using Google?
What is SafeSearch filters? NOT safesearch: That doesn't work!!!
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