google operators how it can help you effectively search the internet?
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GoogleOperatorsHow it can help you effectively search the internet?
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.
Basic Google Operators
•site:•define:•~ tilde
• - minus
Set up your notes like this…
Google Operator
s
site: define
~ -
Your notes will go in the blue boxes…
SITE:
Examples Using site:
SEARCH poverty site:gov• Results are retrieved only from government
websites in the US • Do NOT put a space after the :
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
Examples Using site:
SEARCH poverty site:gov
• Top-level domains work with or without the period
OR
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!
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!
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!
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!
DEFINE
Example Using definedefine: 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
~ (TILDE)
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.
- (MINUS SIGN)
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.
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!
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!
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!
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!
Student Handout
Other Helpful
Resources
A Google A Day Challengeshttp://www.google.com/insidesearch/searcheducation/lessons.html
Search Literacy Lesson Planshttps://docs.google.com/a/g.coppellisd.com/document/d/1Z2hEqyq7Sb0HId9XDSwVLjdIhutb9wH2q-Crz6JTK4E/edit
Google Shortcutshttp://goo.gl/ZWddd
From where does the
information in this
presentation come?
Power Searching with Google Quick Referencehttp://www.powersearchingwithgoogle.com/assets/PowerSearchingQuickReference.pdf
Intermediate 3: Narrowing a search to get the best resultshttps://docs.google.com/a/g.coppellisd.com/document/d/1gfjMT3RCaZyRC30veJhQ1vKfIVp34uR5l351t_G86UE/edit
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