BASIC SEARCH

 

Type in a word or relevant phrase Most relevant page appears first.

Topics covered :: Choosing search terms  Capitalization  Automatic "and" queries  Exclusion of common words  Word variations  Phrase searches  Negative terms  I'm Feeling Lucky

Choosing search terms

General information on India Search word : India For Tourism info Search word : India Tourism If we want to search safari in Bangalore ? Search word :Safari Bangalore Search word :South Indian Safari

Capitalization


Search is not case sensitive

E.g. MAHATMA GANDHI OR E.g. Mahatma Gandhi OR E.g. MaHaTmA GaNdHi

Automatic and Queries

By default Google returns search pages including all your search terms .  There is no need of and in between  Order of search term is vital E.g :- Tourism India . :

E.g :- Tourism in India . :-

Automatic exclusion of common words



Google ignores

Where How Single Digits Single letter etc

To include them add + sign in front of it. OR By putting quotation mark around 2 or more words E.g.:E.g.:- Where is Stanford university . +Where is Stanford university . Where is Stanford university.

Word Variation- Stemming VariationGoogle searches words which are similar to some or all of those terms . E.g. :- Human beings eat : Search result would include words like eating also being displayed  Variation will be highlighted in the text accompanying each result .


Phrase Search


Simply put quotation mark around the search term . Useful for searching :- Proper names . :Lyrics . Famous quotes. E.g. :- I have a dream :-

Negative terms


If your search term has more than one meaning then use minus sign (-) to avoid that word search (-

BASS
E.g.: Bass -music

Im feeling lucky


Instead of clicking google search, click Im feeling lucky and it will direct you to the most relevant website . E.g :- Camo :-

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ADVANCED SEARCH

ADVANCED SEARCH

What can be done with it ?

         

Contain ALL the search terms you type in Contain the exact phrase you type in Contain at least one of the words you type in Do NOT contain any of the words you type in Is written in a certain language Is created in a certain file format Was updated within a certain period of time Contain numbers within a certain range Within a certain domain, or website Don't contain "adult" material

Advanced Search Operators

     

Include search Synonym search OR search Domain search Numrange search Other advanced search features

Include and Synonym search



Plus sign is used for include (+) . E.g: Star Wars Episode +1 If search is not only for that term but also its synonyms then use tilde sign (~) in front of search term Like here's how to search for food facts and nutrition and cooking information in google

OR search


To find pages that include either of the two search terms add an uppercase OR between the terms Like Vacation in India Or USA can be searched as :- vacation India OR USA :-

Domain search


If we want to search a key word only in a specific web page first enter the key word followed by the word site and a colon followed by domain name. Eg: multivariate site:www.camo.com

Numrange search
Searches for results containing numbers in a given range  Just add two numbers, separated by two periods, with no spaces in the search box along with the search term .  NOTE : Do not forget to specify unit of measurement or other indicators what the number range represents. E.g.:E.g.:- ipod $10..$100


Alternate Query types

Link function  To find out all links to a site, type [link: followed by the web site address].  Like to find all the web page linked to google, type [link:www.google.com] Cache function Google highlights those words within cached document, it is written as [cache:website word] Like [cache:www.google.com web] will show the cached content with the word web highlighted

Query contd..
Info Query  By typing the query info:website address, it will give show us information about that page.  Like typing [info:www.google.com] will show information about google home page.  This function can also be accessed by typing the web page url directly in the search box

Other Information needed



The query [define:] will provide a definition of the words you enter after it , gathered from various online sources . A query with [stock:] operator, google will treat the rest of the query as stock ticker symbols and will link to pages showing information for those symbols Like [stocks: intc yahoo] will show information about intel and yahoo .

Other Information needed cont

[filetype:] filetype:doc site:gov confidential - will look for files with .doc extension in all government domains with .gov extension and containing the word confidential either in the pages or in the .doc file. i.e. the result will contain the links to all confidential word document files on the government sites.


Query modifiers


[allintitle: google search] Returns documents with google and search in title [intitle:google search] - Returns documents with google in title and search anywhere in the document (title or no) [intitle:google intitle:search] = [allintitle: google search]

Query modifiers contd



[allinurl: google search] Returns documents that have google and search in the url . [inurl:google search] Returns documents that have google in the url and mention the word search any where in the document (url or no) [inurl:google inurl:search] = [allinurl: google search].

Extra features

Other Features
   

Safe search filtering Language options Number of results New Result window

Safe search filtering

Moderate Filtering Default Excludes explicit images from google image search but does not effect ordinary web search results  Strict filtering Filtering includes all images and web search results  No filtering turns off filtering completely


Language options

Translation software also exists

Number of results and new result window



By default results displayed in a page is 10 but we can make it 20,30,50 or 100 New result window can be open as a new window while keeping the existing search page as it is.

Search features
    

For weather, type weather Bangalore . For time, type time india . For calculation, type 5*8+(sqrt 81) . For book search, type author name . For conversion from one unit to another, type 10.5 cm to inch. To see dictionary definition of word type define and then search word i.e. define history

Search features


Spelling software checks whether the query uses the most common spelling and asks us Did you mean ... To search for web pages that have similar content to a given site, type related: followed by the website address like related:www.bbc.com To ask a question add Asterisk (*) like Edison discovered *

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Other uses include :Track packages Patents Area code Maps Flight status Movies Restaurants in a locality Scores and schedule for sports

Conclusion
 

Google search is a very powerful searching tool . The desired result can be achieved only if the key words are put in the correct order along with the right operators .