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10. Boolean connectors like AND and OR are case sensitive. They must be upper case.
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11. Search for a specific term, then one keyword OR another by grouping them with parentheses, like this: water (smoke OR fire)
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12. To look for phrases, put them in quotes: "there's no smoke without fire"
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13. Synonym search looks for words that mean similar things. Use the tilde symbol before your keyword, like this: ~eggplant
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16. The plus operator makes sure stop words are included. Like: fish +and chip
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You can also ask Google to fill in a blank. Try: Christopher Columbus discovered *
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Search for any filetype directly using the modifier filetype:[filetype extension]. For example: soccer filetype:pdf
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In fact, you can combine any Boolean search operators, as long as your syntax is correct. An example: "sausage and mash" -onions filetype:doc
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Google has some very powerful, hidden search parameters, too. For example "intitle" only searches page titles. Try intitle:herbs
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Find live webcams by searching for: inurl:view/view.shtml
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Similarly, you can find pages that Google thinks are related in content, using the related: modifier. Use it like this: related:www.microsoft.com
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The modifier info:site_name returns information about the specified page.
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