2R Search Engine Script
Mar 2, 2010 Scripts, Web Search Strategies
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[Google Guide] Refining a Query
Feb 25, 2009 Web Search Strategies
Refining a query means changing or adding to the set of search terms to do a better job of returning the pages you’re seeking. Successful researchers frequently enter several queries to find what they’re seeking.
The search boxes at the top and bottom of the results page show the query for the current results page. If the query uses special operators that you entered either directly or indirectly through the advanced search form, they will appear in the search box as well. To refine your query, edit what’s in the search box and then click the button or hit the ENTER key.
Let’s look at a few examples.
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[Google Guide] Other Search Forms
Feb 25, 2009 Web Search Strategies
11. Alerts
Once you’ve refined your Advanced Search, you can watch for changes in the top 20 results by setting up Google Alerts. Google will find and deliver links to new web pages once a week, once a day, or as soon as Google finds them. Simply copy and paste your advanced search query into the search box on the Google Alerts page.
12. Google Ultimate Interface
If you want to specify what you’re looking for with more precision than Google’s Advanced Search form offers, try the Google Ultimate Interface, a third-party application available at www.faganfinder.com/google.html. With the Ultimate Interface you can:
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[Google Guide] Advanced Search Form
Feb 25, 2009 Web Search Strategies
When you don’t find what you’re seeking, consider specifying more precisely what you want by using Google’s Advanced Search feature. Don’t be frightened by the name “Advanced Search”; it’s easy to use, and it allows you to select or exclude pages with more precision than Google’s standard search box. Click on the Advanced Search link at the right of Google’s search box.
or visit www.google.com/advanced_search and fill in the form. (If you previously entered a query from the standard search box, then clicked on the Advanced Search link at the top of the results page, the Advanced Search form is automatically filled in with appropriate information from your previous query.)
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[Google guide] Crafting Your Query by using Special Characters (cont)
Dec 25, 2008 Web Search Strategies
6. The .. Operator
Specify that results contain numbers in a range by specifying two numbers, separated by two periods, with no spaces.
For example, specify that you are searching in the price range $250 to $1000 using the number range specification $250..$1000.
Find the year the Russian Revolution took place.
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[Google guide] Crafting Your Query by using Special Characters (cont)
Dec 25, 2008 Web Search Strategies
3. The – Operator
Precede each term you do not want to appear in any result with a “–” sign.
To find pages without a particular term, put a – sign operator in front of the word in the query. The – sign indicates that you want to subtract or exclude pages that contain a specific term. Do not put a space between the – and the word, i.e.
- USE [ dolphins –football ]
- NOT [ dolphins – football ]
So, to search for a twins support group in Minnesota, but not return pages relating to the Minnesota Twins baseball team:
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[Google guide] Crafting Your Query by using Special Characters
Dec 25, 2008 Web Search Strategies
By using special characters and operators, such as +, –, ~, .., *, OR, and quotation marks, you can fine-tune your search query and increase the accuracy of its results.
1. Quoted Phrases
To search for a phrase, a proper name, or a set of words in a specific order, put them in double quotes.
A query with terms in quotes finds pages containing the exact quoted phrase. For example, [ “Larry Page“ ] finds pages containing the phrase “Larry Page” exactly. So this query would find pages mentioning Google’s co-founder Larry Page, but not pages containing “Larry has a home page,” “Larry E. Page,” or “Congressional page Larry Smith.” The query [ Larry Page ] (without quotes) would find pages containing any of “Larry Page,” “Larry has a home page,” or “Congressional page Larry Smith.”
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[Google guide] Interpreting Your Query
Dec 23, 2008 Web Search Strategies
Understanding how Google treats your search terms will help you devise effective queries and revise ineffective ones.
1. All Search Terms Count
Google returns only pages that match all your search terms.
A search for [ compact fold-up bicycle ] finds pages containing the words “compact” and “fold-up” and “bicycle.” Because you don’t need to include the word AND between your terms, this notation is called an implicit AND.
- [ compact fold-up bicycle ]
Because of implicit AND, you can focus your query by adding more terms.
- [ compact lightweight fold-up bicycle ]
Note: If you want pages containing any (instead of all) of your search terms, use the OR operator.
Note: Google sometimes returns pages that don’t contain your query terms, as you can see in example. Google returns pages in which your query terms are included in the link text (interpreted as a description) to another page or place on the page, more commonly referred to as the anchor text of a link pointing to the page.
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[Google guide] Selecting Search Terms
Dec 21, 2008 Web Search Strategies
The search terms you enter and the order in which you enter them affect both the order and pages that appear in your search results. In the examples below, click on the similar ways of specifying various searches and note how the results differ.
For simplicity sake, this tutorial uses square brackets to denote Google’s search box. For example, to search for a cheap hotel in Mykonos, I’ll put the words “cheap,” “hotel,” and “Mykonos” in square brackets, [ cheap hotel Mykonos ], to indicate you should type those three words in Google’s search box. You should not type the brackets, although Google will ignore them if you do type them.
Furthermore, in the examples that follow, each set of search terms is linked to the results of a Google search on those terms. So clicking on [ cheap Mykonos hotel ] returns the Google results page for a search on those three words.
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[Google guide] Going Directly to the First Result
Dec 20, 2008 Web Search Strategies
Click on the button on Google’s home page to go directly to the first result for your query. Instead of showing you a list of pages, Google sends you immediately to the result that may be most relevant to your query. For example, if you enter the query [ california driving ] (without the square brackets) and click the button, Google may send you to the home page of Hamish Reid’s wonderful California Driving Guide. (You may see another page if Google’s first result has changed by the time you read this tutorial.) When you run a Google search from Google Guide, the search result page opens in a new window. You can come back to this Google Guide page by closing that new window.
This example isn’t just a picture of what a search box and the button look like. In this example and in others like it throughout this tutorial, you can edit what’s in the search box and run different searches.
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