Using Google Efficiently: Basics and Advanced Techniques

Using Google Efficiently
Mr. Harshal A Arolkar

Associate Professor
GLS Institute of Computer Technology
http://www.glsict.org
Do not just enter what you're looking for in
the search box and hope for the best
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Help Google better understand
what you're looking for.
Basics of Google searching
• Wildcards
– Conference on Effective Teaching

• Phrase searches
– "Conference on Effective Teaching”
Basics of Google searching
• Syntax for special cases
• Mixing syntax elements
• Advanced search techniques
• Specialized vocabularies
Phrase Search and Basic Booleans
• Activa Honda “Apex Honda“
• Activa OR Honda OR "Apex Honda“
• Activa (Honda OR “Apex Honda”)
• Activa (Honda | “Apex Honda")
Explicit Inclusion and synonyms
• “I," "a," "the," and "of,“ etc. are stop words
• +the king
• "the Jumping" Jitu, “Anu Malik” +the Indian
Idol
• the who (the exception!)
• ~network is synonym of .net, LAN, TV,
Technology, Software, etc
• ~teacher is synonym of Education, school etc
Number Range
• mobile Rs 500..1000
• Shoes size 9..11
• slr digital camera 3..5 megapixel $800..1000
• yards Mumbai ~apartment 100..
• Yards Mumbai ~flat ..150
Wild Cards and negation
• Wild card replaces one word
– “The atomic * of India”
– “Cricket * India”
• - is used for exclusion
– ICC awards -”cricket”
Special Syntax using operator
• intitle: restricts your search to the titles of
web pages
• intitle:Indian Idol -inurl:youtube
• intitle:index.of "parent directory“
• intext: searches only body text (i.e., it ignores
link text, URLs, and titles).
inurl
• inurl Searches in the URL of the page, allinurl
used for every item typed being part of URL
• inurl:admin backup
• inurl:passwd
Special Syntax
• intext:"yahoo.com" intext:html
• inanchor: searches for text in a page's link
anchors.
• inanchor:“GLS"
Site
• site: allows you to narrow your search by a
site or by a top-level domain.
• Site:.gov
• Site:.gov
• site:edu
• site:nic.in
Link, cache and filetype
• link: returns a list of pages that link to the
specified URL.
• link:www.oup.com lists all pages containing
link to Oxford University Press web site
• cache: finds a copy of the page that Google
indexed even if that page is no longer
available at its original URL or has since
changed its content completely:
• Cache:www.glsict.org
• filetype: searches the suffixes or filename
extensions (total around 1000 such
extensions)
• filetype:doc and view as html
• Stocks:cs (a valid ticker symbol)
related, info and phonebook
• related: , as you might expect, finds pages that
are related to the specified page.
• info: provides a page of links to more
information about a specified URL.
• Phonebook: looks up phone numbers
Related, info and phonebook
• rphonebook for residential bphonebook for
business
• define: gives you a page full of definitions of a
word from around the Web:
Exceptions
• Search is rarely absolute.
• Google Imitate how people think and to
approximate their behavior.
• Most rules have exceptions.
• query [ for better or for worse ] will not be
interpreted by Google as an OR query
• Google will show calculator results for the
query [ 34 * 87 ]
Exceptions
• Synonyms might replace some words in your
original query. (Adding + before a word
disables synonyms.)
• overhead view of the Bellagio pool will give
you nice overhead pictures from pages that
do not include the word 'overhead.‘
• C++, C#, Nikon $400, quick_sort are examples
where punctuation is not ignored
How not to mix
• site:glsict.org -inurl:GLS
• site:com site:edu
Combining Queries
• perl (site:edu | site:com)
• intitle:search intitle:records site:in
• intitle:neurosurgery inurl:help
• education intitle:"encyclopedia of"
-site:amazon.com -inurl:book -inurl:products
• inurl:glsict -site:glsict.org
Combining Queries
• "what's new" "what's cool" directory
education site:edu
• inanchor:icici -inurl:icicibank -inurlicicidirect
-site:edu
• inanchor:icici -site:icicibank.com -site:com
-site:icicibank.co.in
• intext:password intext:username|userid
filetype:log|txt
URL
• http://www.google.com/search?q=
%22Harshal%20Arolkar%22
• http://www.google.com/search is the script
• ?
variable1=value1&variable2=value2&variable
3=value3…
• http://www.google.com/search?q= “Anu
Malik”
Calculator and Conversions
• 365/12
• 9*3
• 12 ounces in pounds
• 3 meters in yards
• 12 USD in Euros
• 137 kilometers in miles
• 88 miles in km
Other
• The Advanced Search Option
• Preferences
• directory.google.com
• http://www.langreiter.com/exec/yahoo-vs-go
ogle.html
,
• The Twingine site (http://twingine.com)
• Dogpile (http://www.dogpile.com)
Latest
• Brand Refinement
• Virtual Keyboard for 35 languages
• Similar links
• Video Episodes “desperate housewives”
• Updates on twitter
Thank You
for further queries mail at
harshal@glsict.org

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