Advanced Search
Advanced Search
If you don’t want to remember all of the options you can use in the search box to create a search statement, you can do most of the things mentioned above using the “Advanced Search” in Google. To access advanced search from a result page, click on “Settings” under the search box. If you haven’t yet performed a search in Google, the settings option is located at the bottom right of the page. From the menu that appears, click “Advanced Search.” On the following page (example below) you can construct a search by simply filling in the boxes. Here you can specify if you want:
- all these words searched (all words entered in the box must appear in the results)
- this exact word or phrase (like using quotation marks)
- any of these words (any, not all, of the words entered in the box can appear in the results)
- none of these words (if you want words removed from the results, like using the minus sign)
Further down the page, note that you can also specify if you want to limit your search to a particular domain (.edu, .gov, etc.), or a particular website (bakersfieldcollege.edu). Here you can also specify if you want to view only a certain type of document, such as an MS Word document or a PDF document.