February 2003
Intermediate to advanced
352 pages
9h
English
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Advanced Search
The Google Advanced Search goes well beyond the capabilities of the default simple search, providing a powerful fill-in form for date searching, filtering, and more.
Google’s default simple search allows you to do quite a bit, but not all. The Google Advanced Search (http://www.google.com/advanced_search?hl=en) page provides more options such as date search and filtering, with “fill in the blank” searching options for those who don’t take naturally to memorizing special syntaxes.
Most of the options presented on this page are self-explanatory, but we’ll take a quick look at the kinds of searches that you really can’t do with any ease using the simple search’s single text-field interface.
Query Word Input
Because Google uses Boolean
AND by default, it’s sometimes
hard to logically build out the nuances of just the query
you’re aiming for. Using the text boxes at the top
of the Advanced Search page, you can specify words that
must appear, exact phrases, lists of words, at
least one of which must appear, and words to be excluded.
Language
Using the Language pull-down menu, you can specify what language all returned pages must be in, from Arabic to Turkish.
Filtering
Google’s Advanced Search further gives you the option to filter your results using SafeSearch. SafeSearch filters only explicit sexual content (as opposed to some filtering systems that filter pornography, hate material, gambling information, etc.). Please remember that machine filtering isn’t 100% perfect. ...
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