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Bill Colburn,

OMUG Board Member

Part-time Math and Chemistry Teacher

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I drew this presentation from the

Google Pocket Guide,

By Calishain, et al,

O”REILLY Publishing,

ISBN 0-596-00550-4

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An Introduction

http://www.google.com

Why learn more?

Time Saving!

You just might have more FUN!

http://www.google.com/

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You might want to take a FEW notes, but I’ll try to make this presentation available on our

OMUG web site.

So,

Sit back, relax, and enjoy!

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Some simple examples

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Single Keywords

in the Search Field


Ceaser

SAP Netweaver

BDA


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Some Useful Tools-

site:

filetype:

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Multiple Keywords

in the Search Field

George Boole

Boolean Algebra

A set of (simple) rules on

How to handle any, all, or none of the keywords

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Boolean Algebra

AND (Google’s default)

OR

NOT

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Boolean Algebra

Symbol Abbreviation

AND +

OR | (on the \ key)

NOT –

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To be or not to be

Snowblower Honda Green Bay

the King


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Google does not support “stemming”

An example of stemming--

Moon*

Could produce search results

Moons, moonlight, moonbeam, etc.

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Google replaces stemming with the

“Full Word Wildcard”

Example

“three * mice”



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More examples

“you silly fool, you can’t change your fate”

“you silly child, you can’t change your fate”



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“you silly *, you can’t change your fate”


“you * fool”


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Google has a 10-WORD LIMIT

including Keywords and Special Syntaxes,

but full-word wildcards (*) DON’T COUNT

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“do as I say, not as I do” quote origin English usage


“do as * say, not as * do” quote origin English usage


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SPECIAL SYNTAX

intitle: (restricts search to titles of web pages)

intext: (restricts search to only the body text)

Examples

George Bush


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inanchor: (searches within a page’s “link anchors”, the descriptive text of a link)

Example

Peter paul and mary


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site: (searches either by site or “top-level domain”)

loc.gov

thomas.loc.gov

edu

nc.us


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inurl: (restricts search to the page’s URL)

http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Meadows/6485

Don’t use site: here. You won’t get results. (THEY say this.

Actually it’s not true.)


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filetype: (searches suffixes or filename extensions)

homeschooling filetype:pdf

leading economic indicators filetype:ppt


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related: (finds pages that are related to other pages)

info: (finds links to more information about a specified

URL)

www.yahoo.com

www.nytimes.com/technology


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phonebook: (searches for phone numbers)

Phonebook:bill colburn

Phonebook:724-4695


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filetype: (searches suffixes or filename extensions)

homeschooling filetype:pdf

leading economic indicators filetype:ppt


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