Search Tips:
- Identify Key Words: Write out questions, circle necessary words, anticipate words in the answer
- Use Booleans to narrow or broaden your search (And, Or, Not)
- Use truncation (*) to catch more results (for example: creat* will bring create, creation, creating...)
- Use quotation marks to keep exact phrases together ("Florida Marlins")
- Use wildcards (?) to catch various spellings or meanings (wom?n brings woman and women)
- Use a minus sign to filter out irrelevant results (-fish)
- Filter results with "Search Tools" in Google
- Search for files and scans using " filetype:pdf" in a search
- Limit results by domain, such as .gov .edu .cn
- Limit to terms in the title of a site or article with "intitle:"
Sample Search String:
- "amnesty international" iran intitle:execution* site:http://.gov "cultur* impact" -oil
Using Google? Choose Advanced Search
Build a search string with Boolify - a puzzle-style google search
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