Created by Branden Maglio and Flynn Castellanos Team BFMMA

Advanced Search Form

Advanced Search Form (con’t) Used to make more narrow search guidelines Sections  Find Web Pages that have:  All these words: results contain all search terms  Basic Search Ex: [ beagle puppies ]  This exact word or phrase: find webpage with only the exact phrase in the quotes  Basic Search Ex: [ “beagle puppies” ]  One or more of these words: find webpage with at least one of the words adjacent to OR  Basic Search Ex: [ beagles OR puppies ]

Advanced Search Form (con’t)  Any of these unwanted words  find web pages without certain words  Need More Tools?  Results per page  Language  File Format  Search within a site or a domain

Advanced Search Form (con’t)

Google Search Basics Square brackets [ ]: query Double quotes “ ” around phrase:  Search for exactly what you wrote With (site:):  Goes to the specific website  Without it goes to articles of the website With a – (minus): take away a word from you search  Ex: [track –and field]

Google Search Basics (con’t) With a * : wildcard:  Placeholder of unknown terms and find the best matches With a + (plus sign):  Gives synonyms and finds pages that mention the term  Add a + immediately before a word and it matches the word With an OR: it will find either word  The word “OR” has to be in capital letters

Google Search Basics (con’t) Exceptions  Absolute  Tries to imitate people and how they think  Exceptions to “every word matters”  “the”, “a”, “for” = stop words  Don’t search these words  Synonyms can replace some words  Some words wont appear on page, but could be relevant  Evidence  Google language analysis

Google Search Basics (con’t) Exceptions (con’t)  Punctuation is NOT ignored  Popular terms  Ex: [C++] or [C#] is NOT ignored  $ = prices [nikon 400] and [nikon $400] would be different  Hyphen: two words are strongly connected  Underscore ( _ ): connects 2 words and NOT ignored

Basic Search Help Basic Search help will describe what symbols, words, and characters will do when you type them into the search box and give you tips on how to search.  Keep the phrase or name simple.  Use descriptive words.  Quotation marks look for the exact words within the marks.  Grammar is generally ignored.  Use brackets, [], to look for results from a specific website.  The search is usually case insensitive, means it doesn't matter if the text is uppercase or lowercase.

Basic Search Help (con’t) How to get there?  Go to the main Google site page.  Click Advanced Search.  Click Advanced Search Tips.  Click Basic Search Help.  And the article will appear.

Basic Search Help (con’t) Google Instant  Google Instant automatically shows you results for what you could be typing, example: looking up “The Holy Bible”.  To use Google Instant simply go to Settings and change to Google Instant.  Begin typing and results will appear.  You can continue to type to refine your search.

Search Page Overview

Search Page Overview (con’t) 1. Header  Settings- The small gear, accesses privacy center, iGoogle, web history, and Google account.  Sign in/Sign out- accesses your Google profile.  Product Bar- see services by Google. 2. Search Bar- just type  Advanced search- more detailed.  Google instant- click on/off.  Safe search- how strict you want your search to be.  Search statistics- total number of results, time it took to complete the search.  Google logo- on special occasions it will have a different design.

Search Page Overview (con’t) 3. Search Results  Title- the title of the result.  Snippet- a short description of the page.  URL- the URL will appear in green.  If a magnifying glass appears you can preview the page. 4. Tools & Filters  Location- will help point out things in your area.  Content type- if you’re looking for images, news, or anything else.  Time- how recent you want your results to be.

Search Page Overview (con’t) 5. Ads  Usually relevant to what you are looking up.  If you want to advertise your web site click See Your Ad Here link 6. Bottom of the page  Related searches- similar termed searches.  More results- to see more results.  Feedback- to comment on your search, click Give Us Feedback link.

Google Preferences Lets you search how you want to search. Click the little gear/settings icon to access preferences.  Lets you customize the…  Language  Location  SafeSearch filtering  Number of results  Results window  And Predicting

Google Preferences (con’t) Language- lets you choose what language you search in, or the language of the interface. Location- choose where you are, this can help for looking up maps or places in the area. SafeSearch Filtering- customize what will show up on a search, three types of filters; Strict, Moderate, and None. Results window- choose if what you search stays on that page or move it to another tab. Predictions- lets you access Google Instant. Number of results- choose how many results per page you get: 20, 30, 40, 50, or even 100.

Google Timeline Used to put your search into chronological order. Found on the left-hand sidebar on your results page. Will show you chronological order of when your search is seen in articles or web pages and how often it appears.

Google Timeline (con’t)

Google Wonder Wheel Visual graph which leads the searcher to the best results Can help find what you are looking for Simple to use Can be used in different languages  Singapore and South Africa use it Allows people to visually see relevant terms and phrases Searches a lot faster

Google vs. AOL Google  Tools/updated products  Organized  Searches  No ads  Websites  Homepage  Just the word  Two buttons  Google Search  I’m feeling lucky AOL  Tools/updated products  unorganized  Searches  Unnecessary links and ads  Homepage  Change background  News  Other links