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Google General Tips and Tricks

Teresa Engelbrecht, Marta Bofill Roig, Pavla Krotka

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General hacks & shortcuts

Search for exact request

  • Use quotes to search for your exact request, not just the words in any order
  • Use two periods within two numbers to search for ranges: E.g. Books 1990..2000

Search specific kind or location

  • Use filetype:pdf to find all PDFs related to your search request
  • Use site:xxx to search a specific site xxx
  • Add @ in front of a word to search social media
  • Tune your image search to specific colour, size, copyright, time oder type
  • Use - to exclude words or phrases from the results

Comparison in searches

  • Use related:xxx to find sites related to xxx
  • Use VS to compare two or more things
  • Use ~ in front of a word to find synonyms
  • Use | (vertical bar) or OR to generalize searches.

Create Google Alert

  • To get notified whenever a keyword is published on the web create a Google Alert

For slower days

  • Use Google search to do math

  • Use Google for a reverse Image Search Upload an image file and find information on that image

  • Use [number]=language to spell out numbers in specified language

  • Play fun games in Google Search
  • Use * in place of words you do not know

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