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The document provides tips for effectively searching on Google, including turning off personalized search, ensuring all search terms are included, and using exact phrases. It also suggests restricting searches to specific domains and file types, such as PDF documents, to find authoritative information. These techniques aim to enhance the accuracy and relevance of search results.

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TOP TEN INTERNET SEARCH TIPS - Top Google Tips

The document provides tips for effectively searching on Google, including turning off personalized search, ensuring all search terms are included, and using exact phrases. It also suggests restricting searches to specific domains and file types, such as PDF documents, to find authoritative information. These techniques aim to enhance the accuracy and relevance of search results.

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Top search tips

Search Google more effectively by having a go at the following techniques…..

1. Turn off personalised searching

Google automatically pushes certain content at you that it assumes you will be
interested in. This is based on:

i. Where you are (geographically)


ii. What you have searched for previously

In order to a do a more objective search of the web, you need to turn off personalised
searching by:

1. Ensure you are signed out of your Google Account


2. Open the search customization settings page
3. Turn the settings off. This will turn the setting off for anyone who uses the same
browser and device as you, unless another person signs in

2. Make sure Google finds all the words you searched for

If you search for several words at once, Google will ignore some of them if it thinks it
is not finding enough results. This can be really frustrating if you are looking for
pages that specifically contain all the words you entered into the search box.

You can also try changing the order of your search terms (e.g. climate change UK to
UK climate change) as this will affect the order of the results.

From your results, choose tools.


Change All results to verbatim to ensure that all the words you searched for appear
in the results

Library and Learning Spaces email:


[email protected]
Last updated September 2022
3. Search for an exact phrase:

If the subject you are describing is expressed as more than one word next to each
other, only retrieve results where the words appear immediately next to each other in
the text by enclosing in speech marks “…”

e.g. “climate change”

This doesn’t always work, so make sure you use the “verbatim” tip from above as well

4. Restrict your search to a specific web domain

The most reliable websites for searching for research information are academic
websites and government websites. You can restrict your Google search to only
retrieve results from a particular kind of website.

You can do this using the shortcut site: in the Google search box, together with
your search term. It is also one of the options in Google advanced search.

Site:.ac.uk obesity
or
Advanced Search add .ac.uk to the box labelled ‘site or domain’
The above will only find pages from UK university websites containing obesity

Other useful options include:

gov.uk UK Government websites


gov US government websites
edu US University websites
org Charity / not for profit websites
org.uk Charity / not for profit websites (UK based)
nhs.uk UK National Health Service websites

5. Search for Adobe Acrobat PDF documents

PDF is the file format nearly always used to publish the kind of information you will
want to look at for academic work e.g. academic research, government
publications etc.

Restricting your search to only find PDF files is therefore an easy way of finding
authoritative information freely available on the web.

You can do this using the shortcut filetype: in the Google search box. It is also
one of the options in Google advanced search.

Filetype:pdf obesity

The above will only find PDF files containing obesity

6. Search for information on a specific website:

Library and Learning Spaces email:


[email protected]
Last updated September 2022

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