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Limiters
You can use limiters to narrow the focus of your search.

The Google search page allows you to narrow or focus your search to "Images", "Groups", "Directory", or "News". Using the Advanced Search feature will give you access other helpful limiters.

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with all of the words	results must include every word listed in this box same as using plus +
with the exact phrase	phrase must appear in results exactly as typed same as using quotes " " or brackets ( )
with at least one of the words	at least one of the search terms will appear in results
without the words	exclude a word from your results same as using minus -

• Language: limit your results to a specific language.

• Date: restrict your results to a particular time frame.

• File Format: specify which file format (.pdf, .doc, .ppt,) to search.

• Occurrences: specify where your search terms occur on the page - anywhere on the page, in the title, or in the url.

• Domains: (.com, .gov, .edu, .net ...) search only a specific web site or exclude that site completely from your search.

• SafeSearch: Google's SafeSearch can filter results.

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For many searches, Google http://www.google.com is a good place to start. It has one of the largest databases of Web pages, including many other types of Web documents. However, Google alone is not sufficient. Less than half of the searchable web is fully indexed in Google. Studies show that about half of the pages in any search engine database exist only in that database. For fully comprehensive web search you will want to use a number of Internet search tools.

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