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TSEM 102: Climate & Society (RJ Neff)

Using Google in a Scholarly Way: Google Advanced Search

Learn how to use Google advanced search to find sources online. This video was last updated in 2021.

Quick Reference to Power Google:

Google: Has power-search codes which can help bring desired results to the surface:
Plus sign (+) requires words to appear: +triangle +Bermuda (Minus (-) excludes terms: Bermuda -triangle;)
Quotation Marks: find Phrases: "Violence and the Sacred"; "Allegory of the Cave"
Asterisk (*) finds nearby terms: Augustine * Nietzsche = "How would Nietzsche negate Saint Augustine?" 
Filetype:file-extension: finds: pdf,  xlsx for Excel; ".pptx" for PowerPoints; ".docx" for Word
Intitle: finds keywords in a web page's title tags: intitle:Deontology