Making The Most Out Of Google
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The document provides 10 techniques for improving searches on Google, including using Boolean operators like OR and AND to expand or narrow searches, excluding words, searching for phrases, and searching within specific fields like titles or types of websites.
Making The Most Out Of Google
- 1. Making the Most Out of Google: 10 Techniques to Improve Search Kieran Lamb Head of Library Services Fade Library www.fade.nhs.uk
- 2. Outline How a search works Using OR to expand a search Excluding words from a search Phrase Searching Searching Within a Web Page’s Title Searching for Several Words in Web Page’s Title Searching All Forms of a Word Looking for Definitions Limiting a Search to a type of site Google Scholar for Academic Articles
- 3. Basic Search Google automatically uses AND The more words you type in the less results you get
- 4. How Does That Work?
- 5. Expanding a Search Medicine has a soft vocabulary with plenty of synonyms use OR to include them You might need to us brackets to separate OR statements
- 6. How Does That Work?
- 7. Excluding Words from a Search Sometimes you need to exclude a concept from a search This can be negative in that the second search here will exclude information comparing the use of nurofen and paracetamol in reducing childhood fevers
- 8. How Does That Work?
- 9. Phrase Searching You can reduce the amount of rubbish you retrieve by searching for phrases by using speech marks to denote a phrase “ lung cancer”
- 10. Searching Within a Web Page’s Title You can be more specific in your search by searching the title information of web pages using the intitle: option intitle:"lung cancer“
- 11. Searching for Several Words in Web Page’s Title You can be more specific in your search by searching the title information of web pages using the allintitle: option allows you to specify several words that must be present. allintitle: