How to search in search engines
There are several possibilities of improving one's search. The
following will help you to improve your search.
Most search engines have expressions, which will allow you to
specify your search. Search expressions can be assembled into a long
search string (boolean). Example:
cars AND ford AND NOT mondeo
Date
Some search engines will allow you to assign date of origin.
Sort
Some search engines will allow you to assign a sort order.
Language
Specifies a language the sites must be in.
List of expressions
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Expression
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Symbol
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Explanation
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cars AND ford
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&
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The search will return sites that contain
"cars" and "ford"
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cars OR ford
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The search will return sites that contain
"cars" or "ford"
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cars AND NOT ford
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;
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The search will return sites that contain
"cars" and not "ford"
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cars NEAR ford
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~
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The search word (car) must be placed at least 10 words from the second search
word (ford)
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car*
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The search will
return sites where the word is included, car, carpark, carwash
etc.
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"car ford”
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Words inside brackets will return sites where the
words are placed next to each other.
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title:ord
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The search will return sites that has the word in the
title
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url:ord
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The search will return sites that has the word in the
url
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text:ord
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The search will return sites that has the word in all
kinds of texts
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link:URL
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The search will return sites that has links
containing the word
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image:ford
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The search will return sites that has pictures with
the search word in the picture name.
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host:ford
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The search will return sites that has the word
in the hostname, for example, www.hostname.com
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domain:domainnave
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The search will return sites that has the word in the
domain name, for example, domain:com
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applet:class
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The search will return sites that has the a Java
applet
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Example
Example cars AND ford NEAR mondeo AND
domain:co.uk AND NOT (used OR old) AND title:resel*
The search will return sites that contain both "ford"
and "mondeo" which are not more than 10 words away. The
search is limited for English pages, which do not contain the words
"used" or "old" but has a title containing
"resel".
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