BASIC TIPS FOR SEARCHING IN GOOGLE

a) Access the website of Google: http://www.google.com and follow the tips provided
below by clicking on the "Google Search" button.
b) Use your creativity to develop other types of research combining the parameters below.

Tip 1 normal search that everyone knows

-Type a word that you want to perform the search;
-Enter a phrase to search websites that contains any word of phrase;
-Type a quoted phrase to search site that contains exactly the searched phrase;
-Type a Word with + sign and another word for search site that contains both words. (ex:
facebook + twitter).

Tip 2 search for "file type".

-Add to the subject being researched the filetype:pdf
Examples:
"Distance education" filetype:doc
Dancing Dog filetype:pdf
"Diethylstilbestrol" filetype:pdf
homeschooling filetype:pdf
"leading economic indicators" filetype:ppt
"Empire Avenue" filetype:pdf
Empower Network filetype:pdf

Tip 3 search only in a specific category of site.

-Add to the subject being searched the parameter site:edu.br
Examples (Brazil sites):
Ensino a Distncia site:edu.br only on higher education site.
Crise Financeira site:jor.br - only in Journalistic sites.
Pantanal site:tur.br - only on sites of tourism.
Segurana da Informao site:eti.br only on sites of information security specialist.
Note:
Visit the site to see the categories of sites of Brazil ( http://registro.br/info/dpn.html ).
Other examples:
Search site:loc.gov
Search site:thomas.loc.gov
Search site:edu
Search site:nc.us

Tip 4 range of dates indexed by Google.

-Add to the subject being researched the parameter daterange:2456293-2456443
Examples:
"Cloud Computing" daterange:2456293-2456443 search "Cloud Computing" between
1/1/2013 to 5/31/2013
"Financial crisis" daterange:2456413-2456443 - search "financial crisis" between 5/1/2013
to 5/31/2013.
"Master's thesis" daterange:2456293-2456443 filetype:pdf - search "master's thesis"
between 1/1/2013 to 5/31/2013. Return only files in PDF format.
Important information:
-The date range means the period of the INDEXING by GOOGLE and not the date or
period of the creation of matter/searched document.
-The date range must be entered in the format "JULIAN". Visit the site
http://aa.usno.navy.mil/data/docs/JulianDate.php to convert the Julian date. Simply inform
only year, month and day and click the button "Compute Julian date".

Tip 5 which sites link to my site?

-Displays sites that are related to the specified site.
Examples:
related:www.gov.bc.ca
related:www.ucla.edu
related:www.empireavenue.com
related:www.yahoo.com
related:www.cnn.com

Tip 6 searching mp3

-inurl:htm -inurl:html intitle:"index of" "Last modified" mp3 "Pearl Jam"
Comments:
Displays sites that had the latest modifications and mp3 format file contains "Pearl
Jam".
-inurl:htm = do not display pages htm
-inurl:html = do not display pages html
intitle:index of = Displays files in list form.
- mp3 = file format. Change it to wav, etc.

Tip 7 searching books

-inurl:htm -inurl:html intitle:"index of" "/book" pdf "O'Reilly"
- "/book" searching directly in the book. Change to other folder name that has relation
with the subject searched.
- pdf - file format. Change to chm, doc, ppt, pps, etc.
- "O'Reilly" name of the publisher.

Other examples:
-inurl:htm -inurl:html intitle:"index of" "/ebooks" chm
-inurl:htm -inurl:html intitle:"index of" "/ebooks" pdf
-inurl:htm -inurl:html intitle:"index of" "/book" chm "O'Reilly"
-inurl:htm -inurl:html intitle:"index of" "/book" chm "Addison Wesley"
-inurl:htm -inurl:html intitle:"index of" "/book" chm "McGraw Hill"
-inurl:htm -inurl:html intitle:"index of" "/book" chm "Cryptography"
-inurl:htm -inurl:html intitle:"index of" "/book" pdf "Forensic analysis"

Tip 8 researching a particular subject filtering by file type and

date range.
"Distance education" daterange:2456413-2456443 filetype:pdf
Note:
-Search the theme "distance education", showing the PDF files in the range of data
indexed by Google: 5/1/2013 the 5/31/2013.

Tip 9 researching a subject filtering by file type, date range,

and only in a category of site.
Distance education daterange:2456413-2456443 filetype:pdf site:edu
Note:
-Search the theme "Distance education" only in higher education sites, showing PDF files
in the range of data indexed by Google: 5/1/2013 to 5/31/2013

Tip 10 other combinations

-Use creativity
-To deepen more in Google searches, see the book cited in the references.

Good research.

Rubens Jos de Souza

Techie in information security
http://xeeme.com/RubensSouza

This document is available at http://www.rjs.eti.br/arq/TipsForSearchingInGoogleEN.pdf

Reference
BAUSCH, Paul. CALISHAIN, Tara. DORNFEST, Rael. Google Hacks. Gravenstein
Highway North, Sebastopol, CA: O'Reilly, 2006, 543 p.

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