SEARCHING STRATEGIES USING

1. Never use one word for a search. Use quotes for phrases. If you really want to find types of poetry (and not just pages with those words, put the.phrase inside quotation marks and the phrase:

“types of poetry” will yield many fewer hits. It will be more manageable.

2. Use the “+” and the “-“ operators between words or phrases. (Boolean search) Prefix your search words with the “+” to indicate that they MUST occur in a page to be considered a hit, and use “-“ to exclude pages. For example

“haiku poetry” +flowers

will find only pages the contain Haiku poetry including flowers. By addition an exclusion term as shown, below, the number of hits will be greatly reduced.
“haiku poetry” +flowers

3. You can also exclude a website or an entire domain from a search by requesting a specific domain:

types of poetry +haiku +site:edu (If you only want sites that end in “edu”)

This example eliminates all documents from an entire domain (.com, .net, etc.) and the addition of other domains eliminates those as well.

Or you can exclude domains:

types of poetry +haiku -site:net –site:org

(You will find this option in “Advanced Searching” also.

4. You can also use the “site” keyword when trying to look for a specific word or words at within one website by using a search like:

. haiku "types of poetry " site:www.educationworld.com

5. Images

To find images, click the image tab at the top of Google and type your word or phrase in the search box.

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6. Additional Strategies: Advanced Searching Clicking on “Advanced Search” located near the search box.Once at the site click “Advanced Search Tips” to read more about using advanced searching.