Google
ignores capital letters and punctuation except in operators.
·
Quotations for an exact match, assures
that the word or phrase will appear in every result exactly the way you typed
it, ex: “ferndale library”.
·
AROUND for words near each other,
ex: Ferndale AROUND library
·
Two periods for range of
numbers: ex: 1850..1860
·
$ for price, ex: $40..$50
·
Minus sign to exclude words, ex:
Robinson -Jackie -baseball
·
Asterisk holds a place of a
character or keyword wildcard. It
replaces up to 5 words. Ex: “John *
Smith” will pick up middle names and initials in the middle.
·
OR to return results with either
word, ex: Ferndale OR Bellingham
·
Site: to search a single site, ex:
site:Ferndalegenies.blogspot.com
·
Tilde
symbol (~) will force Google to show additional synonyms (and related words)
for your query. Ex: a search for robinson
~vital records leads
Google to return results including "vital records," "birth
records," "marriage records," and more.
Operators can
be mixed and matched as needed. There is no limit to search query
length.
Also remember
that the first few results returned by Google are ads. Scroll down a little to see the results you
are looking for.
http://www.wikihow.com/Search-Google Instructions for
Basic Google Search and Advanced Google Search
Judith
Culver
Ferndalegenies.blogspot.com
5/15/17
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