Tips for Searching in

Created by Michelle De Aizpurua.

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You can use Google’s Advanced Search to narrow and filter your results!

Look at all the things you can search by!

Here are some ways to filter your results in the Basic Search box. Google has a set of 'operators' that you can add to your search to give it special

instructions.

In the Basic Search:

You can search within specific websites by using the operator 'site: '

The example here is searching 'site:businessinsider.com' - this will only search our term ‘amazon fire phone’ through Business Insider's archives.

You can also narrow down results by searching domains like:

- '.gov' for government sites, - '.edu' for educational sites, - or country codes like '.au' for Australian sites.

The operator 'filetype:' is also useful. For example, you could narrow your results to only include PDFs...

Or you could only include PPT, DOC, MP3, AVI etc

You can combine operators to get even more specific results.

For example, searching for a specific file type as well as within a particular site.

If you want to search for a specific phrase, put all the words together in quotes.

Say you're looking for results about something that has several different synonyms (another word that means the same).

If you search for several phrases with 'OR' between them, Google will search for both options.

Google also has many different filters. These are the tabs across the top bar.

For example, you can search on a specific topic for news articles only or videos only etc.

Selecting ‘Search Tools’ allows you to further filter results within a tab.

For example, within news you can search for news only from the past 24 hours, or only from Australia etc.

Or within Images, you can filter your research in the ‘Search Tools’ bar by:

• Size,

• colour,

• type (e.g. clipart, photo etc),

• time/date and

• usage rights (this has to do with copyright and whether you can legally use the image! Read about this on the library website)

Google's search-by-image tool is also incredibly helpful. (Go to images.google.com to try it)

For example, if you have a photo you like but don't know where it was taken, you can image search it.

Or say you find something random and you have no idea what it is.

Take a picture (on a white background), upload it, and, viola! Google figures it out for you.

* ‘Google Goggles’ even lets you simply use your mobile phone camera instead of search words!

Colour filtering in Google image search can be very helpful. Once you search for something, you can find the colour filtering options under ‘search tools.’

Here, we only get orange kittens.

That might not sound too useful right off the bat, but it can add context and let you find images based on information that might not be included in the text of the corresponding page.

Book Search works just like web search. Try a search on Google Books, or by using the ‘book’ tab. When Google finds a book with content that contains a match for your

search terms, it will link to your search results.

If the book is out of copyright, or the publisher has given permission, you'll be able to see a preview of the book, and in some cases the entire text. If it's in the public domain, you're free to download a PDF copy.

http://www.google.com/googlebooks/about/

Google Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature. From one place, you can search across many disciplines and sources: articles, theses, books, abstracts and court opinions, from academic publishers, professional societies, online repositories, universities and other web sites. Google Scholar helps you find relevant work across the world of scholarly research. Read more about this on the library website.

http://scholar.google.com.au/intl/en/scholar/about.html

Searching ‘Translate’ provides a quick and simple translator.

Or you can click on the Google Translate link for a more detailed translator program.

There's also a 'Manual' feature in Google Translate that lets you draw characters or symbols.

Now for a Few Extra Things

Google has a few special search features that will help you find what you’re looking for, faster!

You can set a timer on Google (and get an alarm to sound when time is up) by Googling any amount of time followed by 'timer.'

You can find a gorgeous font that you can use for free (Google.com/fonts).

Get your culture on by using Google Art Project to check out super high-res photos of artwork from

the world's greatest museums.

Google.com/sky lets you explore the far reaches of the universe using images from NASA satellite, the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, and the Hubble Telescope.

Intimidated by huge numbers? Google will help you figure out how to pronounce that 12-string number if you type '=english' after it.

If you're looking to do some cooking, you can filter recipes on Google by the time it takes to make, calories, and what ingredients you have.

Google has fun hidden tricks too!For example, ‘Google Klingon’. See what you can find!

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