- prevents a search term to show in results for example searching for doughnut -cream can hel p you to avoid creamy doughnutsdoughnut -cream  “ “  using quotes forces google to search for the exact phrase (including stop words)  ~  allow to search also for synonyms of the given word.  searching for doughnut ~tips finds also pages with the word help or guide etc.

 *  means every word  “doughnuts with *” ..  Used to search in a range of numbers  “2..20 doughnuts” will find pages containing “I eat 3 doughnuts a day” and “I’ll never eat mor e than 15 doughnuts in a month”

8/2/2007 You can replace unknown words with an asterisk - “*”. Google returns results substituting the “*” with words most frequently used in the context of the query.

8/2/2007 Busted! Searching out suspected plagiarism.

8/2/2007 All spellings of a word will be found. Including results with common misspellings.

8/2/2007 Finding common variations.

8/2/2007 Finding parodies.

8/2/2007 …Google will treat the characters on either side of the “*” like separate keywords. Replacing a character. If you try to use “*” to fill in a letter, number, or symbol…

 filetype:  returns links to documents with the given file type  For example searching for doughnuts filetype:java will find port able and object-oriented doughnuts  Currently officially supported file types: pdf, ps, wk1, wk2, wk3, wk4, wk5, wki, wks, wku, lwp, mw, xls, ppt, doc, wks, wps, w db, wri, rtf, swf, ans, txt, but other are supported as well, like xml, cpp, java etc.  site:  restricts the results to the given domain.  site:mapelli.info will find all indexed page on while site:mapelli.info doughnuts will find all doughnuts-relate d pages on

8/2/2007 Example 1 Enter search terms, then qualifier. Finds elephant race on the Cal State Fullerton site. Limit your search to a specific web site.

8/2/2007 Example 2 Enter search terms, then qualifier. Finds dinosaur on the Smithsonian Institute site. Limit your search to a specific web site.

Example 3 Enter search terms, then qualifier. Limits search of schwarzenegger to official California senate pages. Limit your search to a specific web site.

8/2/2007 Specify a type of document to search. pdf – Adobe readable files

8/2/2007 Specify a type of document to search. pdf – Adobe readable files doc – Microsoft Word documents

8/2/2007 Specify a type of document to search. pdf – Adobe readable files doc – Microsoft Word documents mdb – Microsoft Access databases

8/2/2007 D’oh! If you get no results from Google Web, try Google Images. Specify a type of document to search. pdf – Adobe readable files doc – Microsoft Word documents mdb – Microsoft Access databases jpg, gif, tif – graphics and photos

8/2/2007 Specify a type of document to search. pdf – Adobe readable files doc – Microsoft Word documents mdb – Microsoft Access databases jpg, gif, tif – graphics and photos ppt – Microsoft PowerPoint presentations

8/2/2007 Key words, plus……site: modifier, plus… …filetype: modifier… …equals… Voilà! Search of shampoo ingredient limited to find only PowerPoint files on official California government pages.

 link:  lists web pages that link to the given webpage.  link: will list web pages with links pointing to wikipedia’s voice for Doughnut link:  related:  returns pages that google somehow thinks are related to the gi ven page.  Not always accurate.  info:  returns some informations about the given web page. Typically website and description.

 define:  returns the definition of a given word.  example: define:database  weather:  weather information for the given city.  example: weather:los angeles

 movie:  returns all movies related to the search term given.  Sample: movie:doughnuts  You can also find movies by locations:  movie:nyc  movie:10015

 Use these commands in the search window.  intitle: Find sites with one search term in the title.  allintitle: Find sites with all search terms in the title.  inurl: Find sites with one search term in the URL.  allinurl: Find sites with all search terms in the URL 8/2/2007

…and ingredient anywhere in the document. This search returns sites with the word shampoo in the title… Find sites with one search term in the title.

8/2/2007 Notice fewer “hits” when shampoo AND ingredient must be found in the title of the page. Find sites with all search terms in the title.

8/2/2007 …and ingredient anywhere in the document. This search returns sites with the word shampoo in the URL… Find sites with one search term in the URL.

8/2/2007 Find sites with all search terms in the URL. Notice fewer “hits” when shampoo AND ingredient must be found in the title of the page.