Search Engines By: Big Cat Jaime DeBartolo, Rachel Adams, Michelle Knapp

 Very helpful tool –specifies what you want –allows you to select or exclude pages

 click on the Advanced Search link- right of the Google search box.  It will bring you to this page.

“Safe Search” filters explicit sites and restricts it from your search result. Does not filter sites that contain: – hate speech – anarchy – criminal activity – crude and tasteless material – illegal weapons It is keeping our youth innocent

Covers all of the most common issues. Used less than 5% of the time.

 A phrase search - double quotes around a set of words. o often unnecessary o look up exactly what’s in the quotes – EX: “Alexander Bell”  Type site: to search a specific website  Ex: site:Iraqnightimes.com  An asterisk is a placeholder for unknown terms o Ex: Google*

To exclude a word from the search put a minus sign in front of it. Ex: (virus –self) To avoid Google adding words to your search, add a plus. Ex: (+Child care) To add several words type OR in capital letters Ex: (San Francisco 2004 OR 2005) To exclude a word from the search put a minus sign in front of it. Ex: (virus –self) To avoid Google adding words to your search, add a plus. Ex: (+Child care) To add several words type OR in capital letters Ex: (San Francisco 2004 OR 2005)

Google Timeline The Google Timeline is part of the Google experimental It is an application that organizes your search in chronological order and how many articles are published each year.

Google Wonderwheel It presents a visual of what you the searcher is searching for. – When you click a different branch of the spider web it brings you to a more specific web. – The wonder wheel is a feature that was designed to organize and help further find your exact detailed search. It presents a visual of what you the searcher is searching for. – When you click a different branch of the spider web it brings you to a more specific web. – The wonder wheel is a feature that was designed to organize and help further find your exact detailed search.

Basic search help-overview of search page results Shows you how to search Where everything is located How to use basic features Explains features and what they are

Volunteering to translate Google’s help information Can help search for locations – Restaurants Articles in native languages advance search to your need

Basic Search Help: Overview Be Simple Basic words or phrases work Google finds the websites close to what you search for. Google Instant- results appear as you type Be Simple Basic words or phrases work Google finds the websites close to what you search for. Google Instant- results appear as you type

Basic Search Help: Basic Facts Every word matters Search is case sensitive Punctuation is ignored

Simple is best Enter names only – Ex: Companies, places, products, concepts Queries don’t require advanced sentence structure

Search engines match words you give to pages on web Use words mostly likely to be on page – Ex: instead of my stomach hurts, say stomach ache

Each word in the query is to focus it further – Ex: weather Cancun is the simple way to find weather in Cancun. Weather report for Cancun Mexico would be too detailed.

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