Google Search Strategies
Find better information more quickly using these tips and tricks.
" " Search for an exact word or phrase using quotation marks:
Example:
Searching for: "the hunger games" will give you results with the full book or movie title, instead of pages that have each of the words "hunger" and "games" somewhere on the page.
- Use the minus sign to weed out results that you don't want.
Example:
If you want to find information on the book The Hunger Games, but not the movie, search for:
To find results from a specific website, start your search with "site:"
Example:
If you want to find articles from The New York Times about The Hunger Games, set up your search like this:
Find results from a specific country by combining "site: " with a country code.
Example:
If you want to find websites and news articles from the UK about Harry Potter, set up your search like this:
Find a list of country codes here.
Use OR to search for more than one search term at once.
Example:
If you want to do a search for results that use either the term "climate change" or the term "global warming," set up your search like this:
Don't forget to use the tabs at the top of your search results!
You can narrow down your results by choosing what type of source you want to see.
