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By Melanie Birnbaum, Teckspert Talk, Century
Village Computer Club, Florida
http://www.cvcomputerclub.com/
06/10/17 Meeting
by Les Larkin You use Google Search every day, but still all
you know is how to search. However, the search
LesLarkin@AIM.com engine has plenty of tricks up its sleeve.
Here’s an overview of some of the more useful
Our June meeting was conducted by Phil Google search tricks:
Bock. · Use quotes to search for an exact
phrase. Searching a phrase in quotes
The door prize was won by Linda Busch. She will yield only pages with the same
selected the 16 GB USB flash drive. words in the same order as what’s in
Mike McEnery won the 50/50 raffle, the club the quotes. It’s especially useful if
and David each receiving $6.00. Congratula- you’re trying to find results containing
tions to all winners! a specific phrase.
· Use an asterisk within quotes to speci-
Thanks to Linda Busch for making the coffee, fy unknown or variable words. Here’s
and to Linda and Liz Barnett who provided a lesser known trick: searching a
munchables for us. phrase in quotes with an asterisk re-
placing a word will search all varia-
This month's program was "Internet Related tions of that phrase. It’s helpful if
Crimes" by Detective Steve Kueger from the you’re trying to determine a song from
Grayslake Police its lyrics, but you couldn’t make out the
Department. This is a vital topic for all com- entire phrase (e.g. “imagine all the *
puter users. living for today”), or if you’re trying to
find all forms of an expression (e.g. “*
Another great meeting, and I hope to see you is thicker than water”).
at our July 15 meeting.
07/15/17 Meeting · Use the minus sign to eliminate results
containing certain words. You’ll want
to eliminate results with certain words
Our July meeting was conducted by Phil if you’re trying to search for a term
Bock. It was a combination meeting/indoor that’s generating a lot of results that
picnic, our first ever! aren’t of interest to you. Figure out
what terms you’re not interested in
Many members pitched in to do the work, and (e.g. jaguar -car) and re-run the
many brought things to eat. We had door priz- search.
es, and a 50/50 raffle, as usual for a normal
meeting. · Search websites for keywords. Think
of the “site:” function as a Google
I would have more detail, but I was too busy search that searches only a particular
having fun to take notes. I didn't even turn my website. If you want to see every time
computer on! It's always fun to just talk with TIME.com mentioned Google, use the
other members. search “Google site:TIME.com”.
Another great meeting, and I hope to see you · Search news archives going back to
at our August 12 meeting. the mid-1880s. Google News has an
option to search over 100 years’ worth
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