Google - more than "I'm Feeling Lucky"

Quiz on Google

1) When you do a search on Google, it searches the Internet in real time for you.

2) You can only search for content on a webpage

3) You can request Google to search within a particular website or domain

4) Google can do web based voice searching

5) You can do an image search using images on your computer

Don't "ask" Google a question by typing in a sentence. Use specific keywords you're looking for.

Word order is important

• who
• a who
• the who
• the guess who

• police academy
• academy police

really doesn't matter

• surrey school district
• SURREY school DisTrICT

• Plus sign (+) to search for things like blood type [ AB+ ] or the programming language [ C++ ]
• "At" sign (@) for finding social tags like [ @google ] or [ @ladygaga ]
• Ampersand (&) for strongly connected ideas and phrases like [ A&E ] or [ Brothers & Sisters ]
• Dollar sign ($) to indicate prices, so [ nikon 400 ] and [ nikon $400 ] give different results
• Hashtag/number sign (#) to search for trending topics indicated by hashtags like [ #lifewithoutgoogle ]
• Dash (-) will sometimes be used as a sign that the words around it are very strongly connected, as in [ twelve-year-old dog ] and [ cross-reference ]
• Underscore symbol (_) is not ignored when it connects two words, like [ quick_sort ]

taken from:

http://support.google.com/websearch/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=2466433

• Most punctuation marks
• ¥
• £
• €
• ©
• And others

bad speeling?

did you mean: bad spelling

CTRL/CMD + F

FIND feature of the browser

Not a part of Google

Let's Try It!

https://goo.gl/mSK4vT

(Vancouver Weather)

How many weather events during:

• 1950s
• 1970s
• 1990s

Let's Try!

Canada Olympic

Advanced Search Techniques

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain_name

site:<domain name> [keywords]

site:sfu.ca

site:gov.us

site:sd36.bc.ca

site:bc.ca

site:gc.ca

site:jp

filetype:pdf Sony a77

filetype:kml London Olympic Torch Relay

filetype:pdf "The Outsiders"

use of double quotes

vs

"use of double quotes"

"I mourn the loss of thousands..."

Who's quote?

• Sometimes you want to remove or exclude certain results
• use the -[keyword] to exclude the keyword
• thai salad recipe -peanut

OR operator

"summer camp" vancouver OR burnaby

"summer camp" vancouver burnaby

http://images.google.com

keyword image search

filter by...

Capitalization

Quiz on Google

Title of page

http://goo.gl/gpTzy

URL

Content from Daniel Russell of Google

http://www.powersearchingwithgoogle.com

More than "I'm Feeling Lucky"

Snippet of text

Ignored Symbols

Address bar where you

type the URL.

URL - Uniform Resource Locator

Omnibox in Chrome

Related Keywords

Special Symbols

Anatomy of Google's Search Page

Definition: Keyword Search

Definition: Query

A keyword is a search based on specific words related to the topic you are searching on.

A query is when we get a search engine or database system to look up something in its records.

TIP!

Activity

Problem: "What are the must see tourist attractions in London?"

Type this into a Google Search and see what you get.

What if I said it was London Ontario?

What are the keywords?

Use of quotations

filetype:<extension> [keywords]

Exclusion operator

"summer camp"

burnaby

vancouver

Thai Salad Recipes

Google Image Search

don't have "peanut"

Search by image

Find a historic

image of Surrey

What about on mobile?