For more effective searches in Google and other search engines, you will want to restrict the types of results returned. Here are some tips to make your searches more productive.
In the example below, we will be searching for information about G4 Macintosh Computers. The item in bold is the information that will be affecting the search results.
| Google Search String |
Results Returned |
| G4 Macintosh computers |
standard Google return results |
| site:.edu G4 Macintosh computers |
the site: qualifier only returns pages from websites ending in ".edu" (such as SCTC.EDU) |
| site:pedagogyonline.com G4 Macintosh computers |
the site: qualifier only returns pages from pedagogyonline.com |
| "G4 Macintosh computers" |
the quote marks only returns pages where the phrase inside the quotes are present |
| G3 OR G4 Macintosh computers |
returns pages where either G3 or G4 are in the page |
| link:sctc.edu Macintosh computers |
returns pages which have LINKS TO another site, such as SCTC.EDU |
| intitle:Macintosh computers |
returns pages that have the next word in the title, such as
Macintosh must be in the title and computers can appear anywhere else in the page |
| allintitle:Macintosh computers |
returns pages that have all the following words in the title, such as
Macintosh and computer must be in the page's title. |
| define:Macintosh computers |
returns pages that provide definitions for the page (dictionary type lookup) |
| Macintosh computers 2002...2004 |
returns pages that include the numbers on either side of the elipse (...), such as
2002, 2003, 2004 |
| Macintosh -computers |
returns pages that do not have the word following the minus sign(-) |
Additional search techniques can be found at the Google Help: Cheat Sheet
