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Searching Google: tips tricks http://www.google.co.nz/ Searching Google This guide covers selected tips and tricks to refine your search technique – for more information, consult Google’s various help screens. Please note: ? The tips and tricks described on this guide are subject to change. ? Google can personalise search results. Your search results may be different from someone else’s and may vary according to the computer you are using. ? This guide is based on the Chrome browser - Firefox and Internet Explorer are similar Default search settings include: not case sensitive AND search word order truncation search results compound words capital letters of search terms are ignored search terms are automatically combined using AND keyword enter the most important search terms first automatic - no additional symbol required to find alternative endings for search terms display by relevance searches both the compound word and with a space between the words airline air line Options to refine your search include: synonyms “phrase searching” OR exclude include exact spelling intitle: allintitle: related: filetype: site searching domain searching link: define: search preferences Google automatically searches for matching and similar meaning words tourism finds tourist use quotation marks around phrases “adventure tourism” results include either search term. OR must be in capital letters. tourism OR travel use – immediately before a search term you want to exclude tourism –wine use quotation marks around automatically excluded search terms (e.g. the, a) “the tourist” use quotation marks around a single search term to prevent automatic truncation “tour” finds results with your search term in the document title intitle:tourism finds results with all your search terms in the document title allintitle:tourism adventure finds results with content related to a specific website related:.nz limits your search results to a specific file type Examples of file types include; doc xls