BASIC TIPS FOR SEARCHING IN GOOGLE

a) Access the website of Google: http://www.google.com and follow the tips provided below by clicking on the "Google Search" button. b) Use your creativity to develop other types of research combining the parameters below.

Tip 1 normal search that everyone knows

-Type a word that you want to perform the search; -Enter a phrase to search websites that contains any word of phrase; -Type a quoted phrase to search site that contains exactly the searched phrase; -Type a Word with + sign and another word for search site that contains both words. (ex: facebook + twitter).

Tip 2 search for "file type".

-Add to the subject being researched the filetype:pdf Examples: "Distance education" filetype:doc Dancing Dog filetype:pdf "Diethylstilbestrol" filetype:pdf homeschooling filetype:pdf "leading economic indicators" filetype:ppt "Empire Avenue" filetype:pdf Empower Network filetype:pdf

Tip 3 search only in a specific category of site.

-Add to the subject being searched the parameter site:edu.br Examples (Brazil sites): Ensino a Distncia site:edu.br only on higher education site. Crise Financeira site:jor.br - only in Journalistic sites. Pantanal site:tur.br - only on sites of tourism. Segurana da Informao site:eti.br only on sites of information security specialist. Note: Visit the site to see the categories of sites of Brazil ( http://registro.br/info/dpn.html ). Other examples: Search site:loc.gov Search site:thomas.loc.gov Search site:edu Search site:nc.us

Tip 4 range of dates indexed by Google.

-Add to the subject being researched the parameter daterange:2456293-2456443 Examples: "Cloud Computing" daterange:2456293-2456443 search "Cloud Computing" between 1/1/2013 to 5/31/2013 "Financial crisis" daterange:2456413-2456443 - search "financial crisis" between 5/1/2013 to 5/31/2013. "Master's thesis" daterange:2456293-2456443 filetype:pdf - search "master's thesis" between 1/1/2013 to 5/31/2013. Return only files in PDF format. Important information: -The date range means the period of the INDEXING by GOOGLE and not the date or period of the creation of matter/searched document. -The date range must be entered in the format "JULIAN". Visit the site http://aa.usno.navy.mil/data/docs/JulianDate.php to convert the Julian date. Simply inform only year, month and day and click the button "Compute Julian date".

Tip 5 which sites link to my site?

-Displays sites that are related to the specified site. Examples: related:www.gov.bc.ca related:www.ucla.edu related:www.empireavenue.com related:www.yahoo.com related:www.cnn.com

Tip 6 searching mp3

-inurl:htm -inurl:html intitle:"index of" "Last modified" mp3 "Pearl Jam" Comments: Displays sites that had the latest modifications and mp3 format file contains "Pearl Jam". -inurl:htm = do not display pages htm -inurl:html = do not display pages html intitle:index of = Displays files in list form. - mp3 = file format. Change it to wav, etc.

Tip 7 searching books

-inurl:htm -inurl:html intitle:"index of" "/book" pdf "O'Reilly" - "/book" searching directly in the book. Change to other folder name that has relation with the subject searched. - pdf - file format. Change to chm, doc, ppt, pps, etc. - "O'Reilly" name of the publisher.

Other examples: -inurl:htm -inurl:html intitle:"index of" "/ebooks" chm -inurl:htm -inurl:html intitle:"index of" "/ebooks" pdf -inurl:htm -inurl:html intitle:"index of" "/book" chm "O'Reilly" -inurl:htm -inurl:html intitle:"index of" "/book" chm "Addison Wesley" -inurl:htm -inurl:html intitle:"index of" "/book" chm "McGraw Hill" -inurl:htm -inurl:html intitle:"index of" "/book" chm "Cryptography" -inurl:htm -inurl:html intitle:"index of" "/book" pdf "Forensic analysis"

Tip 8 researching a particular subject filtering by file type and date range.
"Distance education" daterange:2456413-2456443 filetype:pdf Note: -Search the theme "distance education", showing the PDF files in the range of data indexed by Google: 5/1/2013 the 5/31/2013.

Tip 9 researching a subject filtering by file type, date range, and only in a category of site.
Distance education daterange:2456413-2456443 filetype:pdf site:edu Note: -Search the theme "Distance education" only in higher education sites, showing PDF files in the range of data indexed by Google: 5/1/2013 to 5/31/2013

Tip 10 other combinations

-Use creativity -To deepen more in Google searches, see the book cited in the references.

Good research.

Rubens Jos de Souza

Techie in information security http://xeeme.com/RubensSouza

This document is available at http://www.rjs.eti.br/arq/TipsForSearchingInGoogleEN.pdf

Reference
BAUSCH, Paul. CALISHAIN, Tara. DORNFEST, Rael. Google Hacks. Gravenstein Highway North, Sebastopol, CA: O'Reilly, 2006, 543 p.

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