Pride Beastie's List: FSO

• Phrase search ("")
• By putting double quotes around a set of words, you are telling Google to consider the exact words in that exact order without any change.
• Search within a specific website (site:)
• allows you to specify that your search results must come from a given website.
• Attaching a minus sign immediately before a word indicates that you do not want pages that contain this word to appear in your results.
• whereas the query [ anti-virus -software ] will search for the words 'anti-virus' but exclude references to software.
• • place a hyphen before the 'site:' operator (without a space) to exclude a specific site from your search results.
   
• Fill in the blanks (*)
• or wildcard,
• If you include * within a query, it tells Google to try to treat the star as a placeholder for any unknown term(s) and then find the best matches.
• • [ Obama voted * on the * bill ] will give you stories about different votes on different bills. Note that the * operator works only on whole words, not parts of words.
   
• The OR operator
• If you want to specifically allow either one of several words
• note that you have to type 'OR' in ALL CAPS

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