OK, so you know how to use Google
advanced search and you would like a way
to search without having to go to the
Google advanced search screen.
Well, a lot of the features in Google
advanced search you can type in to get
the same results just from the google
search screen. So the most basic would be
searching for a phrase to make sure the
phrase is altogether so that way we
would use the quotation marks. "global
warming"
So we're just searching for those two
those two words right together have to
come up. Those quotation marks force it
to just be together that's like
when you're searching in the advanced
search screen it says this exact phrase.
Well, you can do that just with quotation
marks.
Let's say you only want to look at web
pages with global warming in the title
of the page instead of just anywhere.
What you would do before your phrase
whether it's quotation marks or whether
it's not with quotation marks doesn't
matter allintitle: so you type in
allintitle: before whatever you're
searching for whether it's a phrase or
whether it's just one word.
Now if you see this come back, take this
as a big compliment. You have triggered
Google to be suspicious of you because
you are now searching in a very
sophisticated manner that the average
person does not know how to do this kind
of searching and they think that you're
a robot or something. So don't get scared.
I've been doing this kind of searching
this is the only way I search the
Internet. I've been doing this
way for about 10 years; no one has ever
come and gotten me! So just type that in.
OK so i proved I'm a human now! "global
warming" is in the titles of all of the
websites.
Well, that's good, but there's so many
different kinds of websites here. Let's
say I only want to look at US government
websites. So I could type in site: . gov
government websites. Now everything I
notice our search result totals are
really going down here, we have started
out with millions now we're down to
thousands. Now everything is coming from
some type of a government organization
here a lot from NASA here
and CDC all sorts of different
government organizations. OK and that's
good but here, oh climate change well
maybe we're missing out on some websites
by not searching for climate change as
well. So here's how you do that. We're
going to still be an allintitle: "global
warming" OR "climate
change", and from my experience it does
have to be in all caps the or I've... it
tends to work better if you put it in
all caps that connector.
OK, so still allintitle: "global warming"
OR "climate change" have to be in the title.
Still has to come from some kind of a
government website.
OK 44,300 so that
increased quite a bit. We had about 3,500
otherwise. So now you notice global
warming is not in the title at this one
but climate change is, that's what we
were searching for global warming or
climate change. Now they could both be in
the title -
that's fine. But we wanted websites or
web pages that had just those in there.
Now that's that's really cool. Let's say
we want to make it even more specific. So
we're looking for global warming or
climate change in the title, site has to
come from some kind of government
website.
What about the file type? We're looking
at all kinds of web pages here. Let's say
we're looking for PDFs. Now if it's a PDF,
chances are it's a professional article
or a government report or something that
was designed to be published in print
that was later stored online. So how about
filetype so this is filetype: and
pdf. OK now everything that comes back is
a PDF which are nice fo citing because
usually they're going to have page
numbers they're easy to say they're easy
to download to your computer and they're
very easy to print out and they're
generally very heavy on the facts and
the breakdowns because they were
designed to be handouts or reports or
articles.
OK, let's say we wanted a different type of
format. That's a PDF. What about a
powerpoint? What about are there any
government powerpoints stored online?
filetype: ppt. OK, now all of these
would be powerpoint presentations that
you could watch or download to your
computer.
Pretty cool stuff and you can do all of
this from the search box. Now let's take
this back a little bit. Let's say you
wanted to search for websites or web
pages with "global warming" and "climate
change" in the titles only, from
government websites. So instead of or
what if i wanted both of those in there.
By default if you just put those in next
to each other it will search for those
as an and you don't have to type in and.
OK and I'm getting my little thing
here again they're saying "Gee how come
you know how to search the internet so
well?" You should take this as a
compliment if you get this little page.
OK. Now you notice we have climate change
and global warming in all of the titles of
the pages and they're all from
government websites. So, pretty cool stuff.
Let's try something a little different little
different type of a search. Let's say
we're looking for things from
educational websites. So allintitle:
"tell tale heart"
the famous story by Edgar Allan Poe. So I
want webpages that have "tell tale heart" in
the title and I want them instead of
from government websites I want them to
come from some kind of educational
institution. site: .edu. OK, now all
of these have tell tale heart in the
title and they're all coming from some
type of an educational institution. Now
it might be nice to look at the pdfs
here because if they're pdfs, probably
they're going to be articles. site:PDF it
didn't like that,
oh you know what I needed to do filetype
oops my mistake.
filetype we're looking for the type of
file that makes sense.
filetype:pdf. Yea! Now these are
all pdfs and you'll probably find a lot
of articles in here. Pretty cool stuff.
OK.
Let's talk about .orgs. So you can go back
to our earlier search here.
global warming site:.org. So, a .org is a
non-profit so global warming has to be
in the title and the site has to be some
type of a non-profit. And that's great.
We found a lot of good things here. Now a
lot of times for your classes they're
not going to want to see you using
Wikipedia sources. So if that's the case
what you could do after this is type in
a - sign -wikipedia. Uh-oh we got
our little thing again. It's really
getting suspicious of me. Again, take this
as a compliment.
Uh-oh, I must've typed it wrong. OK there
we go. Now we're seeing global warming
in the title from from .orgs and I'm
not seeing wikipedia in there OK. Well,
this is all, this is all good stuff.
Let's say you wanted to do global
warming and more than one type of site.
Let's say we want to look at global
warming in .gov or .edu. So we want
to look at government websites or web
sites web pages published by
educational institutions.
OK now we've got . gov, .gov, .gov, and if we look
we keep looking down here we'll get some
.edu's as well . edu's. So now we're
getting things published by educational
institutions and government agencies
again I always capitalize, put it in all
caps that OR. It seems to work better.
How about we also want .org in there? OK,
now we're doing .org's, .edu's and
.gov's. And if we wanted to,
we could take out the wikipedia sites as
well. So if we don't want wikipedia we
could just minus that out.
OK, pretty, pretty interesting stuff here
too.
Now you could also you could also get
specific even more specific than this.
Let's say you can search within a specific
website and use a website sort of as a
kind of like a database. So let's say
site now we want to get more specific
than just government websites. How about
the environmental protection agency
website? Because that's a huge website
that we could use a database. So allintitle:
"global warming" and it has to be
from the EPA. site:epa.gov. Uh-oh I they
really, oh boy! Why are you searching this
way? How come you know how to search the
internet the right way?
submit okay. Now I have 362 and that's good
because i don't want a ton of results
and look global warming that phrase and
they're all coming from the EPA. So
everything in there is coming from the
EPA. And maybe, I don't know let's see if
they have any PDFs. OK, they just had
one in there. But I'm searching a lot
less. And this is probably a pretty good
PDF frequently asked questions about
global warming and climate change. Again,
it was designed to some kind of a
brochure a handout or a report, so it's
going to be heavy on the facts. OK, and
you could also do it doesn't everything
doesn't have to be like this let's say
you want to look at all in the title
election and you want to look at a
certain newspaper. site:dailycamera.com
for the Boulder Daily Camera the
newspaper in Boulder, Colorado.
OK, so now all of these are going to be
news stories published in the Boulder
Daily Camera, at least from their website,
that all have election in the title.
Pretty interesting stuff. Maybe we want
election and Colorado. So allintitle:
election Colorado site:dailycamera.com
37. Pretty good,
pretty good. So this gives you a lot of
different ways you can search just using
the search box. You could also, let's say
allintitle:"Iron Maiden" and Eddie site:
youtube.com. So we're looking for videos
on YouTube that feature Iron Maiden, the
rock band Iron Maiden and their mascot
Eddie. So now we have all these videos of
Iron Maiden's mascot Eddie. So you can
search any way you want. It gets just
gives you a lot more control over google
and you can do all of this from this box
here instead of having to go to Google
advanced search.
OK, hopefully that made sense to you, let
me know if you have any questions.