Today, we are touching on how to refine your Google search. The guide below will help you and your students refine your Google search to make it more specific and to the point. Enjoy
Filter results by type of content
1- Along the top of your page, you’ll see a number of Google products to filter your content by. When you select More, you’ll see a drop down of additional products to choose from.
Web: By default, your Google search will show unfiltered results that can include all the types of content below.
- “Images: See only results from Google Images.
- Maps: See only results from Google Maps.
- Videos: See only video results from YouTube.
- News: See only results from Google News.
- Shopping: See only results from Google Shopping.
- Books: See only results from Google Books, including reviews, excerpts, and where you can buy the book.
- Places: See only results from places and businesses using Google+ Local.
- Blogs: See only results from Google Blog Search.
- Flights: See only results from Google Flight Search.
- Discussions: See what people are saying in discussion groups, forums, and question-and-answer sites.
- Recipes: See only results for recipes. Customize and filter these results to show recipes with your ideal ingredients, cook time and calorie count.
- Applications: See only results for non-Google and Google applications for your mobile devices and desktop.
- Patents: See only results from Google Patent Search, which allows you to search the full text of the U.S. patent corpus and find patents that interest you.”
2- Publish date:
You can limit results according to when they are published on the Web. Options include any time or a custom range like past month.
3- Reading level:
You can limit your search results to a specific reading level (Basic, Intermediate or Advanced).
4- Translated foreign pages:
6- Dictionary tool:
8- Safe Search
Activate Safe search to filter sexually explicit content. To activate it, click on the gear icon in the right corner, then click on search setting, then tick the safe search box
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Advanced Search
To access advanced search settings , click on the gear icon in the right corner,
9- Refine your query by time, region, and language
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10- Select results by file format
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11- Select usage rights
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