When searching Google..

• Your search is not case sensitive – it doesn’t matter if you use capitals or not
• Word order matters
  • Google ranks the first word slightly higher than the second, the second slightly more than the third, etc
• Punctuation is usually ignored
• Google uses automatic word stemming
  • Google searches for all possible word variations e.g. Diet returns diets, dieting and dietary

Choosing keywords

Watch the following video about choosing your words to search with presented by Daniel Russell, Senior Research Scientist at Google until you reach 2:14

Evaluating websites

Anytime you use the “free internet” you need to evaluate the information to make sure it is reliable. To do this, make sure you use the CRAAP test.

CRAAP test [Image]. (2017). Website evaluation. Retrieved from http://ucsd.libguides.com/preuss/webeval

Google Advanced Search

Google Advanced Search offers extra features not available using Google Basic.

A few extra features are available when you search but there are many more on the advanced screen.

How to access Google Advanced Search

Advanced operators

Activity 1

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Filters

Activity 2

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