Better searching

Google it - top tips

• If you are looking for a specific set of words in a specific order, then use “…” marks around it.
• If you want to exclude certain results, use the – sign before the search string.
• Use ~ to make the search less specific.
• Use the * to make the search more wide ranging (e.g. for architect and architectural).
• Under the settings menu use the ‘advanced search’ function to restrict search results.

You can restrict results to PDFs only to get reports, which are likely to have more substantive information than webpages. You can also restrict a search to PPT, which will show presentations.

More details and tips:

Google search help: https://support.google.com/websearch/answer/134479?hl=en

Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/ ??

Google Books: https://books.google.com/ ?

Google Advanced Search: https://www.google.co.uk/advanced_search ??