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professional google user
Google’s default is the Boolean operator AND;
to broaden your search, type OR between keywords
AND (assumed)
click GOOGLE SEARCH
and get these results:
click I'M FEELING LUCKY and Google will choose the most relevant web page for
your search, without giving you a choice of any other search results.
This is Google's
choice for the
search above. 
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do internet math with Google to refine searches
note: no space here
type
“dead sea”;
click
GOOGLE SEARCH
results
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to add: type +salts;
click GOOGLE SEARCH
results
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to subtract: type -salts;
click GOOGLE SEARCH
results
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anatomy of a Google search result
Blue underlined text is a link
to this web page; click the
link to
go there
the URL [web address] of the
web page; use this info to help
judge the reliability of site.
click RELATED ARTICLES to
see more articles on this subject
note this URL ends with .edu , which
denotes the website of an academic
institution; reliability = high
click SIMILAR PAGES
to see more pages like this
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use full-word wildcards to broaden a search
use * to replace words you can't
remember (or can't spell) in a lyric
or quotation; then click SEARCH
space
use special syntax to limit a search
no special syntax: results
will include .com, .org,
and all other domains
add special syntax
[ site:edu ] & results
will include .edu domains
only - (academic pages)
add special syntax
[ site:gov ] & results
will include .gov domains
only - (government pages)
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Google language tools
click LANGUAGE TOOLS to
open Google's translation tool
translate a page from another language into English
santa croce is in Italy;
see what information is
on web pages in Italian
choose to read the page
translated into English, or in
original Italian
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translate your text into another language
type your text into the box,
then click TRANSLATE
results
translate a web page into another language:
URL , choose your
languages, then click TRANSLATE
type in the
results
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use Advanced Search tool to refine your search
click ADVANCED SEARCH
to open the tool, bringing up the
search engine screen
you type
search parameters
into these blanks
Google translates
them into a
search string
click
ADVANCED SEARCH
results
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