Be a Google Expert in 12 Steps!

Tips to Help You Find the Most Relevant

Information FAST

Many of these tips will work for database searches too!

1. Keep it simple!Every word countsBe short but descriptive Use words that will appear on the

web page Possible Searches:

families in Iran

family life in Iran

women in Iran

children in Iran

Iranian families

2. Some words/symbols are not even searched!

aandsoforthetopunctuation marks . ? , ; :

3. Google is case insensitive!

FAMILY LIFE IRAN

4. Do not ask questions!

Type: family life iran

What is family life like in Iran?

5. Put phrases/titles in quotations.!

“family life” Iran

Book title:

“my life in iran” book

6. Use a minus sign (-) to exclude!

“family life” iran -food

For info about the bird, not football:

falcons -football

7. Google assumes the word and between words!

women iran

8. Use OR (in caps) to search for either one of several words!

women OR children iran

9. Find results in a specific domain!

Use site:edu (or org, gov, net, mil).

“family life” iran site:edu

11. Find results in a specific format! Use filetype:ppt (doc, pdf)

“family life” iran filetype:ppt

12.Find out who links to a site to see if it is a credible source!

link:www.cultureofiran.com/patriarchy.html

Use link:pasteURL

If you want more…Use * to fill in the blanks:

Use ~ to search for a word and its synonyms:

famil* Searches family, families

psych* Searches psychology, psychiatrist(s), psychologist(s)

iran ~glossary Searches for glossary, dictionary, terms, terminology for Iran

And even more…

intitle:

Finds words that are in the title

intitle:Shakespeare

inurl: Finds words that are in the URL

inurl:Shakespeare

You can also use the Advanced search page…

at the bottom of your results page

The Advanced Search Page also gives you many options…

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…in an easy format!