Learn how to use and find Excellent Search Engines
SYNTAX: Study Finds Net Users Poor at Search Strategies
Syntax
This syntax works on Yahoo, MSN.
example: site:gov newspapers
Limits to only sites in the .gov domain
baseball site:microsoft.com
limits to pages from Microsoft that contain the word baseball.
Google Search Technique:
Use the syntax filetype. filetype:(txt) or filetype:pdf
To include this in your search type +filetype:pdf
to exclude it type -filetype:pdf
Example:if you were looking for music information for a certain type of music, but wanted to avoid PDF music forms or documents, you could create a query like: “The Band” wheels on fire +filetype:txt
If you wanted to find all the .edu pages about <Your Name> You will need to use syntaxes. Look at 3 examples below
- allintitle:
- allinurl:
- site:edu
Google allows the following search:
allintitle:”name” site:com brings you to your name
intitle:name intitle:name
Warning: when you are using more than two syntaxes you have to be careful sometimes using
allintitle: and allinurl:
together can cause search errors. Instead, use
intitle: and inurl:
This query works:
intitle:name intitle:name inurl:name site:com