Welcome to my e-book on Search Engines for the world wide web by Alfred and Emily Glossbrenner. A Visual quickstart guide published by Peachtree press, ISBN 0-201-73401-x, read in December 2005.
PART OF APPENDIX A
| for this type of search | do this: | example: |
|---|---|---|
| Plain- english question | Type in question or phrase. | What is ? ? |
| Phrase Search | surround by "double qoutes" | "?" |
| AND search | type words or phrases seperated by a space use a (+) plus sign in front of each word | london museum +london+"art museum" |
| OR search | Types words or phrases (no qoutes allowed) seperated by OR (full caps required). | woodworking OR cabinetry |
| NOT search | use a minus(-) sign directly in front of the word or phrase you want to exclude. | "custom windows" -software |
| case sesitive search | n/a | |
| date search | n/a | |
| field search | Type a field-search term followedby a colon(:) and the search word or phrase. No space after the colon. TITLES: use 'allintitle:' or 'intitle:' with one or more search words. The first example would look for both words in page titles, the second either word URLs: use 'allinurl:' or 'inurl:' with one or more search words. The first example would look for both words in page titles, the second either word DOMAINS: Use site: followed by a domain name or type (com,edu,gov,etc.) along with a search word or phrase you want to find at that site or domain type. The first example would find pages at the national geographic web site that include the word inventions. The second would find goverment web sites that include the word patents.LINKS: use link: with a specific web address to find all pages that link to that address. The example would find pages that link to the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office | allintitle:inventions inventors intitle:inventions inventors allinurl:pdf1099 inurl:patents trademerks Site:nationalgeographic.com inventions site:gov patents link:www.uspto.gov |
| nested search | n/a | |
| proximity search | n/a | |
| wildcard search | n/a |
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