Just say we are looking for a thread about
the colour of an orange in the dark. We do not remember the
exact pharasing but we do remember the words "colour" and a
single phrase "Orange in the dark"
We do not want to
search the entire net so in Google Advanced we go to Sections 1
& 2 as per diagram. List within the box shown at
section 2 the web site desired. In this case it is us at the
SSSF so the site is www2b.abc.net.au
If it is a
really old file then try www2.abc.net.au
At
number 3 enter the Exact phrase you do know "Orange in the
dark" in the Exact Phrase section And the other word
in the All Words Section
Now search and all the
threads with that Exact Phrase and also containing words
listed in the All Words Section will come up. For this site
only.
LOOKING FOR PICTURES.
For a
school project or whatever. Right here at Google™ advanced there
is a folder on the page that specialises in finding only pictures
from various Web sites
Say you are looking for
pictures of Giraffes. Just enter the word and push the search
button. Then select the images folder as shown in the
picture.
Click on
the picture you desire. The screen will shift to another
page Click on the picture again and you will have the picture
alone with its URL
BIG
NOTE Copyright laws apply to some pictures so
beware.
It's as easy as that.
Zardoz Favourite Search
Engines. A link here to dozen of the web's best
engines. Master Search
Engines
Google
Advanced. Google defaults to Boolean AND. Enclose
phrases in quotation marks. Use the boxes to require and
exclude search terms.
Order of results: Google's
PageRank algorithm ranks pages based on the number of pages that
link to a given document. That is, the more frequently a document
is linked to, the "better" it is. Google groups results by site,
although this feature does not always appear to function properly.
What is displayed: Results include document title, first few words
of text, URL, and a link to a previously cached version of the
page.
Sample question. Quinine stops people
from getting malaria but is it by stopping the mosquitoes or the
malaria
Do a search in Google on quinine and you get
42,000 pages. However if I was going to ask an online doctor about
Quinine. How would I phrase the question.
How does
Quinine …blah blah So let's search … "How does Quinine" in
Google Advanced.
Open Google Advanced and in the box
marked "with the Exact Phrase" I put it in and I get 24
pages instead of 42,000 and most of those 24 are doctors being
asked questions.
Some questions have a title born for the
quick search like "Temperature in a black hole" Again in the
"Exact Phrase" box and you get 131 pages with a NASA page
at the start which has to be good for something.
Mad Science. Is almost always my first port of
call. Again the search engine is word in document or exact phrase.
Similar logic to the Google search applies. The good thing is that
being a science site you have less sifting through junk
first. Mad Science
Search
Medical. My
favourite site is Medicine net.com as it generally explains things
in a language understandable by most. The search here is a single
box. If some says what is Herpes then the search is academic. If
some says "I have a sore throat and bad breath" then you can
search "sore throat breath" and it finds all documents with all
three words. With a little nous you may work out a good prospect
from there. Medical
Search
News I have
two sites for news. CNN is the big American with specific sites
for Science & Technology, Space and Medicine. CNN
When we get the odd question that starts with I
heard or read that a new medical test for cancer has been done. I
go to Moreover.com. MOREOVER
In the top
right hand side is a little search box which searches newspapers
online and nothing else. Again if you search a single word you
could be swamped. The trick is to think like a journalist and
imagine how the article will read. Then select two or more key
words and put them together in quotation marks. EG
"cancer test"
It then looks for all the articles
that have these two words together.
GOOGLING
THE GOOGLE IN AN ADVANCED METHOD 
