EDU Screencasts

Google Tip of the Week: Display Preferences

Dominik Lukes — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 11:18:26 +0000

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.

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Google Tip: Search for definitions

Dominik Lukes — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 06:53:30 +0000

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.

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Google Tip 3: Search for exact phrases

Dominik Lukes — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 00:11:58 +0000

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

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UC Berkley Lecture: On Search Engines

Dominik Lukes — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 11:26:33 +0000

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 It was delivered in 2005 so it's a bit out of date on a few things but most of the important points still hold.

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Google Tip 4: Exclude words from search queries

Dominik Lukes — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 09:48:26 +0000

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

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Google Tip 5: Using 'OR'

Dominik Lukes — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 09:12:48 +0000

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

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