This is what I use when teaching students a better way to use Google if they really don’t want to use Google Scholar:
Searching specific Website:
Use the following example shows how to search only within a single site:
Example: Lent site:http://romancatholicblog.typepad.com/
Book Review site:nytimes.com
Searching topic in title:
The query intitle:term restricts results to documents containing term in the title.
Example: flu shot intitle:advice will return documents that mention the word “advice” in their titles, and mention the words “flu” and “shot” anywhere in the document (title or not).
Putting intitle: in front of every word in your query is equivalent to putting allintitle: at the front of your query. In other words, allintitle: google search Tips.
Example allintitle:death penalty catechism
Narrow or widen a search:
Adding a plus or minus sign allows you to narrow or widen your search.
Examples: “civil war” +US +history
“civil war” +US +history -Wikipedia
Cancer -Lukemia
Searching topic in inurl:
Example: inurl:cancer
(Words in the Text) + Title, URL etc.
If you want to find a webpage where one term appears in the text of that page and another term appears elsewhere on the page, like the title or URL, then type in that first term followed by intext:followed immediately by the other term.
Example: “linear algebra” intext:google
Specific Document Types:
Find results that are a file type, (presentations, images, documents, etc).
Example Search: "marketing strategies" filetype:ppt
Ongoing research?
Set a Google alert so you get continuous updates. Visit Google News Initiative.
Hope this helps,
Dawn M. Zillich, librarian
St. Paul Catholic High School
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From: CASL-L <casl-l-bounces@mylist.net> On Behalf Of Loretta Sullivan
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Subject: [CASL-L] Booleon search terms - do you teach them?
Hello everyone,
I wanted to know if you teach Booleon search terms (and,or, not) for more effective searching when using keywords? Can someone clarify for me (I feel awful about not knowing) why when trying these search terms they do not always work? Are they only effective when using databases vs. using a search engine to look something up? My TIS and I were trying them in hopes of helping students learn these strategies, but did not find anything that worked the way we wanted when we tried them. Am I missing something? Thanks for your help!
Respectfully,
Loretta Sullivan
Library Media Specialist
Bennet Academy
Manchester, CT
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