Internet Research with Google Advanced Search

Modifying a search

Looking at the numbers of results obtained so far we can end up with very large numbers of sites. Given its vastness, retrieving too many results, of varying relevance and quality can be more of a problem when searching the Internet than too few results. This section presents some of the most useful ways for narrowing down or focusing a search using Google Advanced Search. The specific techniques are:

• adding another term
• specifying a domain
• specifying a date
• excluding a term