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Google Cheat Sheet: January 2014

This document provides a cheat sheet for using Google search functionality including: - Stemming and searching for word variations - Using quotation marks, hyphens and asterisks to search for phrases and fill in word gaps - Limiting searches by date, site, file type and other parameters - Tips for searching within resources and databases after finding them through Google The cheat sheet offers examples for how to effectively search for information on topics and get definitions, calculations and more from Google.

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Google Cheat Sheet: January 2014

This document provides a cheat sheet for using Google search functionality including: - Stemming and searching for word variations - Using quotation marks, hyphens and asterisks to search for phrases and fill in word gaps - Limiting searches by date, site, file type and other parameters - Tips for searching within resources and databases after finding them through Google The cheat sheet offers examples for how to effectively search for information on topics and get definitions, calculations and more from Google.

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Google Cheat Sheet

January 2014
To get the most out of Google (www.google.com) use the following, as appropriate:

Functionality Examples

Stemming - Google generally fountains will find fountain and also fountains
automatically searches for words with
different endings

To search for an exact phrase put “climate change”


quotation marks around a set of
words “freedom of information” “state bodies”

"Fuel Poverty Older People and Cold Weather an all Island


Exclude punctuation when using “”to
Analysis"
search for a title

Use hyphens (-) to search for terms straw-bale will pick up straw-bale, strawbale or straw bale
that could be one, two or hyphenated
words

Fill in word gaps using an asterisk. This "george * bush" will pick up George W. Bush, George H. W.
will pick up possible extra word/s. Bush, George Walker Bush

It will also fill in unknown gaps. “There are * continents”


NB: check more than one source to
verify the answer to your question. "* opened the aviva stadium"

Google assumes an AND between History agriculture Ireland is actually history AND agriculture
search terms. The use of the implicit AND Ireland and will retrieve items which contain all three
AND reduces search results and is terms
used to combine different concepts.

To include terms that have a similar History agriculture OR farming Ireland OR irish
meaning / synonyms use OR between
words. This will increase your search “climate change” OR “global warming”
results.
NB: use the OR to combine American self-care therapists OR counsellors OR counselors
terms and spelling variations

To exclude a word add the minus "king charles" –dog


symbol ( - ) before the word
NB: don’t use if the words are related
in meaning – result may exclude
relevant sources
To limit a search to a specific site/s “Ireland in a warmer world” site:www.met.ie
add site: to the URL
site:europa.eu/ regulation 1008

site:www.independent.ie OR site:www.irishtimes.com OR
site:www.irishexaminer.com OR site:rte.ie "medical card"
scheme OR criteria change

To limit a search to part of a URL add “wave energy” OR “tidal energy” site:ac.uk OR site:edu
site: to the suffix
“Samantha power” speeches site:gov

To exclude a URL add –site: before the ipad mini -site:apple.com


URL

To limit a search by filetype add site:oecd.org ireland economy filetype:pdf


filetype:pdf or filetype:ppt or
filetype:xls to your search marketing filetype:ppt OR filetype:pptx site:ac.uk OR site:edu

NB: not all publications are PDFs and unemployment OR "live register" site:cso.ie filetype:xls
not all statistics are XLS

Limit your results to a specific time Recent OECD report on the Irish economy:
period e.g. past 2 months, past year. site:oecd.org ireland economy
Good way to limit by the recent past Then click on Search tools / Any time / Past year (or Custom
range)

Search over specific time periods Dublin housing 1900..1950


using the years separated by two dots.
Good way to limit by longer/older
date range

Limit words to appear in title using intitle:”The Tempest” gender


intitle: as a prefix

Get a definition by adding define define dymaxion


before the word
Check under About for the credentials "fine gael" policy "northern ireland" "anglo irish agreement"
of a website OR sunningdale OR fitzgerald
http://www.ucd.ie/ibis/about/

20 year "irish language" strategy comment OR opinion OR


"press release" OR debate OR discussion
http://www.gaelport.com/about

Use Google to calculate, e.g. miles in 4oz in grams


kilometres, temperature, currency €12 in £
Add “type” of information being
sought to search string :

“Annual report” Eirgrid “annual report”

Bibliographies gender studies bibliographies

Database OR dataset "public health" ireland OR irish database OR dataset

Architecture Ireland OR irish database

“soil chemistry” datasets

"Digital library" OR "digital "first world war" OR "world war 1" "digital library" OR
collection" "digital collection"

Libguide "irish literature" libguide

"first world war" OR "world war 1" libguide

Spss libguide

“Search engine” zoology portal OR directory OR "search


engine“

Once within a resource such as a E.g.


database, perform a second stage Eirgrid “annual report”
search for your topic. If the resource is And then Ctrl & f to bring up the search box. Then type in your
text-based – Word or PDF, use Ctrl search terms.
and f key to search within.

More help https://support.google.com/websearch/?hl=en#topic=3378866

Other Google services and academic For information on using Google Scholar, Google Books and
search engines academic search engines see UCD Library guide:
http://www.ucd.ie/t4cms/Guide1.pdf

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