{"id":255,"date":"2006-12-16T17:45:09","date_gmt":"2006-12-16T22:45:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sevenseek.com\/collegev2\/2006\/12\/16\/advanced-google-search-techniques-for-college-students\/"},"modified":"2020-05-07T22:02:17","modified_gmt":"2020-05-08T03:02:17","slug":"advanced-google-search-techniques-for-college-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sevenseek.com\/collegev2\/2006\/12\/16\/advanced-google-search-techniques-for-college-students\/","title":{"rendered":"Advanced Google Search Techniques for College Students"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As a continuation of the Google Search series for college students, today we&#8217;re going to look at some methods of advanced searching.  This means conducting searches using the Google Web Search function more in-depth, by utilizing special features and advanced search operators.  Mastering these search methods will not only help you find whatever you&#8217;re looking for, whether it&#8217;s for a paper, homework assignment, or just your own curiosity.<br \/>\nThere are two different kinds of advanced searching methods on Google. The first would be using the Advanced Search page, which is located at <a target=\"0\" href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/advanced_search\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/www.google.com\/advanced_search<\/a>. The second way to conduct an advanced search is through the use of search operators, or words that have a special meaning to Google. Please follow the links below for further information about each advanced searching method.<\/p>\n<p><strong><u>The Advanced Search Page:<br \/>\n<\/u><\/strong>Through a series of drop-down menus and specifying search terms on the Advanced Search page, you can limit your search in the following ways:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Find the results \u00e2\u20ac\u0153with all of the words\u00e2\u20ac\u009d, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153with the exact phrase\u00e2\u20ac\u009d, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153with at least one of the words\u00e2\u20ac\u009d, or \u00e2\u20ac\u0153without the words\u00e2\u20ac\u009d.<\/li>\n<li>Limit your search results to specific languages.<\/li>\n<li>Specify what file format you do or don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t want your search results to be returned in.<\/li>\n<li>Select to return web pages updated within specified time periods.<\/li>\n<li>Select to return web pages with certain usage rights: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153not filtered by license\u00e2\u20ac\u009d, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153free to use or share\u00e2\u20ac\u009d, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153free to use or share even commercially\u00e2\u20ac\u009d, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153free to use share or modify\u00e2\u20ac\u009d, or \u00e2\u20ac\u0153free to use share or modify even commercially\u00e2\u20ac\u009d.<\/li>\n<li>Set filtering to \u00e2\u20ac\u0153no filtering\u00e2\u20ac\u009d, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153moderate filtering\u00e2\u20ac\u009d, or \u00e2\u20ac\u0153strict filtering\u00e2\u20ac\u009d. Filtering will eliminate adult sites from your search results.<\/li>\n<li>Conduct site specific searches.<\/li>\n<li>Find links that link to specific pages.<\/li>\n<li>Conduct topic-specific searches with Google Print, Google Scholar, Apple Macintosh, BSD Unix, Linux, Microsoft, U.S. Government, and University.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><u>Advanced Search Operators:<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Most of the searches that you can conduct on the advanced search page can also be done in the regular Google web search by using advanced search operators. Your query may include special operators in the form of operator:value. Please note that the colon between the operator and search term is required.<br \/>\nPlease see the chart below for a list of search operators and their uses.<br \/>\n<strong>allinanchor: <\/strong><br \/>\nLimits results to pages that contain all the search terms you specify in the anchor text on links to the page. Anchor text is text that is linked to another page or a different spot on the current page.<br \/>\n<strong>allintext:<\/strong><br \/>\nLimits results to pages containing your specified search terms in the text of a page only.<br \/>\n<strong>allintitle: <\/strong><br \/>\nLimits search results to pages containing your specified search terms in the title of a page only. In News search, this operator will limit results to articles with your terms in the title. In Image search, this operator will limit results to those with your search terms in the file name.<br \/>\n<strong>allinurl:<\/strong><br \/>\nLimits results to those with your specified search terms in the URL only. In News search, allinurl: will return articles with your search terms in the title.<br \/>\n<strong>author:<\/strong><br \/>\nWhen used this will restrict Google Groups results to include newsgroup articles by the author you specify.<br \/>\n<strong>bphonebook: <\/strong><br \/>\nShows you business white page listings for the term you specified.<br \/>\n<strong>cache:<\/strong><br \/>\nShows you Google\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s cached version of a web page (from the last time they crawled the site) instead of the current version. On cached pages, you will see your search terms highlighted in yellow.<br \/>\n<strong>define:<\/strong><br \/>\nShows you definitions from various websites for the search term you provided.<br \/>\n<strong>ext: <\/strong><br \/>\nWorks the same way as the filetype: operator.<br \/>\n<strong>filetype:<\/strong><br \/>\nRestricts your results to specific file types, e.g. pdf, doc, html.<br \/>\n<strong>group: <\/strong><br \/>\nRestricts results in Google Groups to specific groups or subareas.<br \/>\n<strong>id: <\/strong><br \/>\nWorks the same as the info: operator.<br \/>\n<strong>inanchor: <\/strong><br \/>\nLimits results to pages containing the search terms you specify in the anchor or links to the page.<br \/>\nE.g. &#8211; dogs inanchor: Dalmatians will return pages in which the anchor text on links to the pages that contain the word \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Dalmatians\u00e2\u20ac\u009d and the page contains the word \u00e2\u20ac\u0153dogs.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<br \/>\n<strong>info:<\/strong><br \/>\ninfo:url will return information about the specified web page.<br \/>\n<strong>insubject:<\/strong><br \/>\nLimits articles in Google Groups to those that contain your search terms in the subject.<br \/>\n<strong><em><span \/><\/em><\/strong><strong><em><span \/><\/em><\/strong><strong><em><span \/><\/em><\/strong><strong><font size=\"3\"> <\/font><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>intext:<\/strong><br \/>\nLimits results to those with your search terms in the text.<br \/>\n<strong>intitle: <\/strong><br \/>\nLimits results to those with your search terms in the title.<br \/>\ndogs intext:dalmatians will return result pages for \u00e2\u20ac\u0153dogs\u00e2\u20ac\u009d that also have \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Dalmatians\u00e2\u20ac\u009d in the text.<br \/>\n<strong>inurl:<\/strong><br \/>\nLimits results to those with your search term in the url.<br \/>\ndogs inurl:Dalmatians will return results for dogs that have Dalmatians in the url.<br \/>\n<strong>link:<\/strong><br \/>\nShows pages that link to the specified URL.<br \/>\n<strong>location:<\/strong><br \/>\nIf included in your search on News, results will be returned only for the location you specify.<br \/>\n<strong>movie:<\/strong><br \/>\nReturns results with movie-related information such showtimes (if you include a zip code), reviews, and more.<br \/>\n<strong>msgid:<\/strong><br \/>\nLimits results in Google Groups to a newsgroup article with the specified message ID.<br \/>\n<strong>phonebook: <\/strong><br \/>\nShows all white pages listings for the search term you specified.<br \/>\n<strong>related:<\/strong><br \/>\nReturns pages similar to the one you specify.<br \/>\nE.g. &#8211; related:www.mp3s.com will show you sites similar to mp3s.com.<br \/>\n<strong>rphonebook:<\/strong><br \/>\nShows residential white page listings for the search terms you specified.<br \/>\n<strong>safesearch:<\/strong><br \/>\nExcluses adult sites from your search results<br \/>\n<strong>site:<\/strong><br \/>\nLimits search results to the website you specify.<br \/>\n<strong>source:<\/strong><br \/>\nLimits results in Google News to the news source with the ID you specify.<br \/>\n<strong>stocks:<\/strong><br \/>\nThe operator stocks: with a company\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s ticker symbol will return stock information for the particular company.<br \/>\n<strong>store:<\/strong><br \/>\nLimits results in Froogle to a specific store.<br \/>\n<strong>weather<\/strong><br \/>\nTyping weather and a location will give you the weather for that location. 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