1. Google Operators How it can help you effectively search the internet?

2. What is a Google Operator? a command that you add to your query to give Google special instructions about how you want it to deal with a specific search term some are symbols, while others are words. (Most online databases and Internet search engines support Boolean operators.) Google Operators and Boolean searching allows you to do effective searches by cutting out unrelated documents.

3. Basic Google Operators site: define: ~ tilde - minus

4. Set up your notes like this… Google Operators site: define ~ - Your notes will go in the blue boxes…

5. SITE :

6. Examples Using site: SEARCH poverty site:gov Results are retrieved only from government websites in the US Do NOT put a space after the :

7. Examples Using site: SEARCH poverty site:gov The site: portion of the query can come before or after the other search terms (poverty is the search term here) OR

8. Examples Using site: SEARCH poverty site:gov Top-level domains work with or without the period OR

9. Practice Using site: I want to find documents on US government websites about gamers, people who play video games. What query do you use? Possible searches: gamers site:gov gamers site:.gov site:gov gamers site:.gov gamers Now, you try it!

10. Practice Using site: I want to find documents on US government websites about gamers, people who play video games. What query do you use? Possible searches: gamers site:gov gamers site:.gov site:gov gamers site:.gov gamers Now, you try it!

11. Practice Using site: You love animals, and think you might want to become a trainer of animals in a zoo one day. You decide to check the Bureau of Labor Statistics (bls.gov) to see the wages for animal trainers. What would your search look like? Now, you try it!

12. Practice Using site: You love animals, and think you might want to become a trainer of animals in a zoo one day. You decide to check the Bureau of Labor Statistics (bls.gov) to see the wages for animal trainers. What would your search look like? Possible searches: site:bls.gov wages animal trainers site:.bls.gov wages animal trainers wages animal trainers site:bls.gov wages animal trainers site:.bls.gov Now, you try it!

13. D EFINE

14. Example Using define define: Use to identify the meaning of words. Example: define yarn bombing NOTE: to define words that do not appear in traditional dictionaries, click on Search Tools in the left panel, then Dictionary

15. ~ ( TILDE )

16. Example Using ~ adding a tilde (~) before a search term allows Google to look for related terms it may not have searched for originally. adding a tilde (~) will return related terms, not synonyms.

17. - (M INUS SIGN )

18. Example Using - - minus sign eliminates irrelevant results Use the minus sign in front of any term you do NOT want in the results of the query Do NOT place a space between the minus sign and the term My query will return results with apple but will not return any results with fruit. Therefore, many results will be about Apple and Mac products.

19. Practice Using – (minus sign) You are researching topics on the western US and are looking up cowboys. Since it is football season, when you simply search for [cowboys] you get many results on the Dallas Cowboys mixed in with results about the men who were cowboys on ranches. What is a query that you can use to narrow your results to focus on the man who tends cattle and not the football team? Now, you try it!

20. Practice Using – (minus sign) You are researching topics on the western US and are looking up cowboys. Since it is football season, when you simply search for [cowboys] you get many results on the Dallas Cowboys mixed in with results about the men who were cowboys on ranches. What is a query that you can use to narrow your results to focus on the man who tends cattle and not the football team? Possible searches: cowboys –dallas –football cowboys –dallas Now, you try it!

21. Practice Using – (minus sign) You want pages that talk about the top free apps. When you search for [top free apps] you get a lot of pages about both Android and iPhone apps mixed into the results, but you don’t want iPhone apps; you have an Android. So, you decide to try rewriting the query so that it eliminates the word iPhone from all your results. What would that query look like? Then, can you think of taking this one step further to get even more precise results? Now, you try it!

22. Practice Using – (minus sign) You want pages that talk about the top free apps. When you search for [top free apps] you get a lot of pages about both Android and iPhone apps mixed into the results, but you don’t want iPhone apps; you have an Android. So, you decide to try rewriting the query so that it eliminates the word iPhone from all your results. What would that query look like? Then, can you think of taking this one step further to get even more precise results? Possible searches: top free apps -iphone top free apps -iphone -apple Now, you try it!

23. Student Handout

24. Other Helpful Resources A Google A Day Challenges http://www.google.com/insidesearch/searche ducation/lessons.html Search Literacy Lesson Plans https://docs.google.com/a/g.coppellisd.co m/document/d/1Z2hEqyq7Sb0HId9XDSw VLjdIhutb9wH2q-Crz6JTK4E/edit Google Shortcuts http://goo.gl/ZWddd

25. From where does the information in this presentation come? Power Searching with Google Quick Reference http://www.powersearchingwithgoogle.com/ass ets/PowerSearchingQuickReference.pdf Intermediate 3: Narrowing a search to get the best results https://docs.google.com/a/g.coppellisd.com/d ocument/d/1gfjMT3RCaZyRC30veJhQ1vKfIV p34uR5l351t_G86UE/edit