Step by Step with Google Advanced Search
Google Advanced Search lets you consult the world's most popular search engine with the power of combining two or more terms. This involves filling in a multibox and gives more precise and accurate results than just typing in random words.
- Before you touch the keyboard, think carefully about your topic.
Some search topics have two main ideas in them. If your topic does not
have two ideas, then you may want to narrow it down. A good example of a
paper topic is: social software newly created by MSN.
- The main ideas in this topic are: MSN and social.
- To put these ideas together for a more powerful
Google search, your search, statement becomes:
MSN AND social. The
AND is not a word but
a logical operator that tells the computer to look for all articles that deal with
both MSN (Microsoft Networks) and social. Here is
how Google Advanced Search sees your statement. The overlap between the circles
is your search results.
Note: in Google Advanced Search, you do not actually type the AND. All the Words is Google's version of AND.
- To search Google Advanced Search, bring up Google in your browser by typing in
http://www.google.com.
- Then click on the tiny link
for Advanced Search to the right of the Google logo.
- Google presents you with a multibox. For most
searches, fill in your topic's two main ideas in the All the Words box.
The AND is invisible in
Google Advanced Search.
- Click the Google Search button to launch your search.
- Google presents results ten(10) at a time and
you can move among them with the scroll bar and move between pages with
the, Previous, Next, or Page Number links.
- To see a web page, click on its blue title.
- To print a web page, select Print under File, or click on
your browser's Print icon.
- To end a session in Google Advanced Search, click your browser's Home icon, type a new URL in the locator bar, or just close your browser.