- This search page contains a series of various searches.
- Line 1: "all these words" retrieves pages containing all the words. Here is a search for: avocados, cars, cats Notice the retrieved links contain all three words or at least two of the words.
- Line 2: "this exact word or phrase" retrieves pages containing the words beside each other. A search in line 2 for avocado cars cats retrieves "No results found for "avocado cars cats"., followed by links to the same pages retrieves in line 1. The phrase cats eating avocados retrieves several hits.
- Line 3: "any of these words" retrieves all pages with any words on this line. Search for avocados, cars, cats on this line will retrieve links to Web sites mentioning only one of these topics.
- Line 4: "none of these words" would leave out Web pages with these words.
- Line 5: "range of numbers" should retrieve a range of numbers.
- Line 6, 7, and 8 allow "narrowing" searches by language, region, and last update of the Web page.
- Line 9: "site or domain" would search only a specific Website identified. For example, ford.com would search only the Ford automobile Web site. nasa.gov would search only NASA's Web site. I find that these Google searches limited by the site/comain name is often a better than searches with the Web site's own search engine.
- Line 10: "terms appearing" looks for terms in specific parts of Web pages. Looking for terms in a "title" for example would retrieve documents with the words in the title. These documents are most certainly going to say a lot about the words searched for.
- Line 13: "file type" narrows searches by the type of document. When I am looking for written papers on a topic, I often search for "doc", i.e., Word documents, or PDF, i.e., documents written in a word processor and then saved in Adobe's Portable Document Format (pdf). You can also search for presentations in PowerPoint and Excel documents.
Advanced Web searching
www.google.com/advanced_search
