First in a series of short screencasts on how to make the most of Google! The tip: Set Google preferences to display 50 results at once.

Second tip for more efficient use of Google: Put 'define' before a search term to see if there are any definitions of it on the web.

In this screencast you'll find out how to use the "quotation marks"to search for exact phrases.

This is not a screencast but it is an important lecture about searches and search engines! It offers many examples of users' difficulties with searching. It is aimed people designing search systems but can be equally useful to inquisitive search engine users who wish to expand their set of searching strategies. It was delivered in 2005 so it's a bit out of date on  a few things but most of the important points still hold.

In this Google Tip, you will find out how to refine your searches by excluding words using the '-' (minus) sign.

This short tip shows you how to find results for multiple search terms that may not appear in the document together.