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Links:
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Google
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Home page
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www.google.com
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Will search in…
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Google search engine
Open Directory
Google Newsgroups Search (previously Deja.com)
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Default search
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AND
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Case sensitive
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No, all letters, regardless of how you type them, will be understood
as lower case.
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Natural language queries
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No |
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Spell check
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No |
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Translates pages into another language
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No |
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SYNTAX
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Google
Search Basics |
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Find pages that have one or more of these words
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dog OR cat
Or use advanced
menu
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Find pages that contain all these words
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+dog +cat
Or use advanced
menu
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Find pages that contain the first, but not the last, word
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dog -cat
Or use advanced
menu
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Find pages that contain the following exact phrase
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"raining cats +and dogs"
Note that Google ignores "stop-words".
Use the "+" sign to include stop words in your search. Be sure
to include a space before the "+" sign. You can also include the
"+" sign in phrase searches. You do not need the + before stop words in phrases enclosed in " ", however.
Or use advanced
menu
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Find pages that contain these words in near proximity of
each other
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No
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Include synonyms of the following word
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~food ~facts
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Find pages that contain words that starts with the following
letters
(joker-signs, truncation, wildcard)
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No, Google searches for exactly the words that you enter in the
search box. However, you may use an * to signify a word in an exact phrase enclosed in " ": "the raiders of the * ark"
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Nesting (Use of parentheses)
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No
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FIELD SEARCH
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Google Advanced
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Find pages that have the following http-address (or parts
of address)
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allinurl:pandia -net
find ALL the words you specify after it, within the URL of
a webpage.
inurl:Web searching find ANY of the words you specify
after it in the URL
Or use advanced
menu
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Find pages under the following domain
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site:sampledomain.com
Or use advanced
menu
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Find pages with these words in the title
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intitle:dog
Or use advanced
menu
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Find pages that contain images with names that contains
the following word
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No
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Find pages that contain links to the following address
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link:www.pandia.com
Use advanced
menu
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Find pages that contain the follwing word in the title
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allintitle:dog
This query cannot be combined with a search for text in the Web
page itself
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Find pages that contain the following text anywhere in the
HTML-code
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No
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Find pages written in a particular language
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Use advanced
menu
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Find pages made in the following time period
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Advanced search form.
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Find documents in a particular format
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"internet searching" filetype:pdf brings you Acrobat documents on Internet searching.
Other file types indexed are:
Adobe PostScript (ps), Lotus 1-2-3 (wk1, wk2, wk3, wk4, wk5, wki, wks, wku),
Lotus WordPro (lwp), MacWrite (mw), Microsoft Office (xls, ppt, doc), Microsoft Works (wks, wps, wdb), Microsoft Write (wri), Rich Text Format (rtf), Text (ans, txt)
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Find stock quotes
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stocks:[ticker symbol]
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Find US phonenumbers
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rphonebook:[name] finds residential listings
bphonebook:[name] finds business listings
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Find related pages
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related:www.pandia.com will list web pages that are "similar" to a specified web page
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Find info
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info:www.pandia.com will present some information that Google has about that web page.
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Find cached version of page
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cache:www.pandia.com will give you the most recent version of the Pandia home page indexed by Google
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Exclude pages with adult content
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safesearch:beautiful girls will give you information about the movie "Beautiful Girls", but will filter out all adult content.
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Search databases
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Enter a special "code word" and a number and Google will search the relevant database for you.
- US Patent numbers example search: patent 5123123
- UPS tracking numbers example search: 1Z9999W999999999 (no "code word" neede)
- FedEx tracking numbers example search: fedex 999999999999
- FAA airplane registration numbers example search: n199ua (no "code word" needed)
- FCC equipment IDs example search: fcc B4Z-34009-PIR
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Find US airport weather conditions
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Type the airport's three letter code followed by the word "airport." For example, San Francisco International Airport updates can be found by searching for sfo airport.
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FIELD SEARCH USENET NEWSGROUPS
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Google Groups
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Find this newsgroup
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group:comp.os.linux.announce
Use
advanced search form
To find all pages in a given newsgroup hierarchy, use the * notation
to denote "all pages in this hierarchy"
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Find this text in the subject field of newsgroup messages
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insubject:chess
Use
advanced search form
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Find messages that are written by the following
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author:john_smith@
dejanews.com
Use
advanced search form
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Find messages that are dated…
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No. This function will be applied at a later date.
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More information on advanced searching
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Google
on how to refine your search
UC
Berkeley tutorial
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