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Guidelines for safe search Google
Basic Safe Search Guidelines
- Keep it simple.
- Think how the page you are looking for will be written.
A search engine is not a human, it is a program that matches the words you
give to pages on the web. Use the words that are most likely to appear on the page.
- Describe what you need with as few terms as possible.
- The goal of each word in a query is to focus it further. Since all words are
used, each additional word limits the results. If you limit too much, you will miss a lot of useful information. The main advantage to starting
with fewer keywords is that, if you don't get what you need, the results will likely give you a good indication of what additional words are
needed to refine your results on the next search.
- Choose descriptive words.
- The more unique the word is the more likely you are to get relevant results. Words that are not very
descriptive, like 'document,' 'website,' 'company,' or 'info,' are usually not needed. Keep in mind, however, that even if the word has the
correct meaning but it is not the one most people use, it may not match the pages you need. For example, [ celebrity ringtones ] is more
descriptive and specific than [ celebrity sounds ].
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Advanced Google Search Features
- Use square brackets [ ]
- to denote queries, so [ to be or not to be ] is an example of a query; [ to be ] or [ not to be ] are two examples of queries.
- Phrase search ("")
- By putting double quotes around a set of words, you are telling to consider the exact words in that
exact order without any change. Google already uses the order and the fact that the words are together as a very strong signal and will stray
from it only for a good reason, so quotes are usually unnecessary.
- Search within a specific website (site:)
- Google allows you to specify that your search results must come from a given website. For
example, the query [ iraq site:nytimes.com ] will return pages about Iraq but only from nytimes.com. You can also specify a whole class of
sites, for example [ iraq site:.gov ] will return results only from a .gov domain and [ iraq site:.iq ] will return results only from Iraqi sites.
- Terms you want to exclude (-)
- Attaching a minus sign immediately before a word indicates that you do not want pages that contain
this word to appear in your results. The minus sign should appear immediately before the word and should be preceded with a space. You can exclude as many words as you want
by using the - sign in front of all of them, for example [ jaguar -cars -football -os ]. The - sign can be used to exclude more than just words.
For example, place a hyphen before the 'site:' operator (without a space) to exclude a specific site from your search results.
- Fill in the blanks (*)
- The *, or wildcard, is a little-known feature that can be very powerful. If you include * within a query, it
tells to try to treat the star as a placeholder for any unknown term(s) and then find the best matches. For example, the search [ Google * ]
will give you results about many of Google's products. Note that the * operator works only on whole words, not parts of words.
- Search exactly as is (+)
- Google employs synonyms automatically. But sometimes it helps out a little too much and
gives you a synonym when you don't really want it. By attaching a + immediately before a word (remember, don't add a space after the +), you are
telling to match that word precisely as you typed it. Putting double quotes around a single word will do the same thing.
- The OR operator
- Google's default behavior is to consider all the words in a search. If you want to specifically allow either one of
several words, you can use the OR operator (note that you have to type 'OR' in ALL CAPS). For example, [ San Francisco Giants 2004 OR 2005 ] will
give you results about either one of these years, whereas [ San Francisco Giants 2004 2005 ] (without the OR) will show pages that include both
years on the same page. The symbol | can be substituted for OR. (The AND operator, by the way, is the default, so it is not needed.)
Exceptions
- Exceptions
- Search is rarely absolute. Search engines use a variety of techniques to imitate how people think and to approximate their behavior.
As a result, most rules have exceptions. For example, the query [ for better or for worse ] will not be interpreted by Google as an OR query,
but as a phrase that matches a (very popular) comic strip. Google will show calculator results for the query [ 34 * 87 ] rather than use the 'Fill
in the blanks' operator. Both cases follow the obvious intent of the query.
- Exceptions to 'Every word matters'
- Words that are commonly used, like 'the,' 'a,' and 'for,' are usually ignored. But there are even exceptions to this exception.
- Synonyms might replace some words in your original query. (Adding + before a word disables synonyms.)
- A particular word might not appear on a page in your results if there is sufficient other evidence that the page is relevant. The evidence
might come from language analysis that Google has done or many other sources.
- Punctuation that is not ignored
- Punctuation in popular terms that have particular meanings, like [ C++ ] or [ C# ] (both are names of programming languages), are not ignored.
- The dollar sign ($) is used to indicate prices. [ nikon 400 ] and [ nikon $400 ] will give different results.
- The hyphen - is sometimes used as a signal that the two words around it are very strongly connected. (Unless there is no space after
the - and a space before it, in which case it is a negative sign.)
- The underscore symbol _ is not ignored when it connects two words, e.g. [ quick_sort ].
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