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To search Google type a word in thesearch box and click the GoogleSearch Button.If a typo is made or you don’t know howto spell a word Google will suggestalternatives. In this example the searchterm has been entered as
commerical 
but Google correctlysuggests: Did you mean: commercial.You can click on the correction tosearch the corrected word.When searching multiple terms you do notneed to use ‘AND’.
Google: Tips and Tricks
Google will find pages with misspelled words. On thisexample Google found 134,000 examples of themisspelled
commerical 
, but doing a search on thecorrectly spelled term returns over 17 million hits.Google will also correct misspelledproper names too.To eliminate a term from the search youcan put a minus sign in front of the term.Searching
clemency hearings children
Very common words or terms might be eliminated fromthe search. In the search below the
I
of
level I
is notsearched.will return pages that use the terms
clemency hearings but
 
which do notinclude the
children
.By adding a plus signin front of the term youforce Google intosearching for that termtoo. Doing a search on
trauma care level +I
using the plus sign hasmore targeted results.
 
Phrases can besearched by typingit within quotationmarks.“OR” can be used to broaden a search and itcan be used between phrases, for example:
“commercial law” OR “immigration law.”
The “OR” should be uppercase.A very useful feature of Googleis the ability to limit a search bythe domain. For example: theLaw Library’s web address is:
www.law.fsu.edu/library
. Ofthat address
www.law.fsu.edu
 
is the
domain. You can, for example,
limit a Google search of thephrase “business law” to theFSU Law School domain byentering
“business law”site:www.law.fsu.edu
. It isvery important to use theformat:
site:domain
.In the example above the term “terrorism” has beensearched on the UN Treaty site. Notice that the firstresponse does in fact come from the
untreaty.un.org
domain as do all the other responses this search willreturn.Google can search foreign words that use letters that are different fromthose used in English. To get good results these foreign letters should beused. Doing a foreign language search on the German worduberstaatliches using a
u
 
as the first letter rather than a
ü
 
will get either noresults at all or only sources that are misspelled the same way.To insert a letter like the German u abovethat includes an umlaut or dieresis youshould, on your computer, open CharacterMap. Most computers will have thisinstalled. On my computer this is underSystem Tools but the location varies fromcomputer to computer so you might haveto hunt for it.
 
Note that there are many different foreignfonts that can be inserted in this way.This is Character Map. When you click on theletter it will become larger. There are two ways tocopy this into a search or document. You canclick on Select and then click on Copy and thenpaste it into the search box in Google by eitherdoing Ctrl/v or by clicking on Edit and then Paste.The other way to put the letter into the Googlesearch box or any document is to use theKeystroke. Notice that the Keystroke for
ü
isAlt+0252. Remember that and go to the documentwhere you want to enter this font.Hold down the Alt key, and using the keypad type0252. You do not type the +. The plus signindicates the you hold down the Alt key while youtype the number. You must use the keypad andalso you must type the 0. (Alt+0252 and Alt+252are not the same.)In this search
uberstaatliches
returned nohits while
überstaatliches
returned 137. The differencebeing only the correct use ofthe German
ü
.If your search returns a page in a foreign language Googlealso has translation tools. You can translate pages intoEnglish that are in German, French, Spanish, Italian andPortuguese. This is a machine translation and it is not aperfect translation, but usually adequate for getting ageneral sense of the content.Chinesecharacterscan also besearched.
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