Today we are going to talk about how to
use Google Advanced Search. And it can be
a little tricky to find. You notice I
went to Google and just typed in Google
Advanced Search and it's the first link
that comes up. On our database page,
you'll also notice at the very
bottom, we have a link going directly
into Google Advanced Search.
So either way. Now when I get here, this
is basically looking behind the scenes
in Google so that you have more control
over what you search for. Let's say I'm
looking for research on The Great Gatsby.
So I would go here, this exact word or
phrase. And then instead of just looking
in all sorts of .com's and everything
on the Internet, how about we just look,
site or domain, in .edu's? How about
if we just look in education websites?
And then we click Advanced Search.
O.K. And we found all of these websites
are maintained by some type of
educational institution. "Great Gatsby
Resources."
Let's go back in there. We have 41,300
results. Let's go back. Now, if you go back,
it tends to lose your searching
information, so I go here, on this little
tool thing and click Advanced Search. So
"Great Gatsby," still in there in my phrase.
I still have .edu. How about we get a little
bit more specific? How about The Great
Gatsby has to be in the titles of all
the web pages that come from .edu's, in
the title of the page.
Click Advanced Search. That narrowed it
down quite a bit. Now we have 1,300
resources. And these all are going to be
good, these all are coming from some kind
of an educational institution.
Basically we just raised the bar on what
we're willing to look at for websites. We
don't want to see everything. And the
normal millions of websites that
come back, it really narrows down quickly
into the 1,300 range, that's a lot better.
I'm going to make it more specific again.
I'm going to go back to Advanced Search.
We've still got "Great Gatsby" in the title,
and it has to be this exact word or
phrase. It has to come from a .edu
website. It has to be, Great Gatsby has to be
in the title of the page. Now I'm going
to go one further. How about any format?
I'm going to set this PDF. And if I set
it to a PDF, generally it's going to be
searching out for articles or things
that were published in print first and
then scanned and stored online. So now we
have 201. And all of these are going to
be a little bit, a little bit higher
level now.
If someone took the time to publish them
in print first, depending on what you
get. And you notice you're getting kind
of like a publication here. Somewhat like
what you would expect from a
professional database. So, Google
Advanced Search sort of transforms
Google into kind of more like a library
database. Now let's try to go back.
Sometimes when we go all the way into a
PDF, it will will make it so we can't go
back to Advanced Search, but this did it
which was nice.
O.K. Let's do a different type of search.
Let me go in here to Advanced Search again.
Let's get rid of this. Let's say I'm looking to
do some psychology research now.
"Depressive episode," I want that exact
phrase. And instead of .edu's, I want to
look in government publications. So
.gov. Go ahead leave it in the title,
and for now let's say any format, and do
a search.
O.K. Now sometimes after you set the file
type, it won't let it go. And also notice
up here in the search box, you can you
can do all of this searching in the
search box too. I have another video that
covers that. But this is, it keeps setting it
to "file type 1." Let's just erase that from
here. If it gets stuck on a file type,
just do that. And do the search. Notice it
runs to search just from these this kind
of code up here.
O.K. And now we're getting things from
government entities - National
Library of Medicine.
Again, more like a more like a database.
Now there's the PDF of this article
right there. So it's basically
turning Google into more like a database.
Let's try to go back. Sometimes it gets
stuck.
O.K. That was good. It went back. Let's go
here, back to Advanced Search and now
maybe we want to take this all the way
up to a PDF. Any format, give me a PDF. And
now all of these, not as much,
as much here. But you notice "depressive
episodes" in the title, they're all coming
from some type of government entity.
Let's go back here to Advanced Search
again. Let's say we want to look in .org's,
in nonprofits .org, and we don't
need that PDF. It might, it might get
stuck on it, and we'll just erase it. So
it's stuck on the "filetype 1." That's a
kind of a little glitch in it. Maybe
that's just a glitch with Internet
Explorer. O.K. Major depressive episode, now
you notice everything is coming from .org's,
which is great. But you might have
an instructor who says "I don't want to
see anything from Wikipedia." So what you
could do is go back here to Advanced
Search and you could tell it
none of these words, because Wikipedia is
probably the first thing that's going to
come back with any .org search,
because they are nonprofit, a .org. So, I
don't want to see Wikipedia in these
websites that are from .org's with depressive
episode in the title.
O.K. Now you notice that Wikipedia
site is gone and the rest of these look
look pretty good. All from .org's. So, that's
a quick intro for how to use Google
Advanced Search.
There's another video I have online that
teaches you how to do all this in the
search bar up here. So, thanks a lot for
watching.