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Google Guide Quick Reference: Google Advanced Operators (Cheat Sheet)

Comments

[Emma Anne]

Very nice.

[ToonArmy]

A similar guide for Yahoo! Search:

http://tools.search.yahoo.com/shortcuts/

You can even define your own shortcuts:

http://search.yahoo.com/osc/help (there are a lot of pre-defined ones too)

[Anderson]

What I really miss on Google is the proximity searching I'm used to on Westlaw:

Bush /25 "miserable failure"

[jerry]

where: my keys
when: she call
which: flowers pizza
what: step 2
stocks: close
conjure: levitation

[Hans Suter]

thank you !

[marc sobel]

I have been using furl for a long time to keep track of web pages I want to remember (5222 entries) turns out you can download them including copies of the web pages http://www.furl.net/export/furlArchive.zip

so I did, unzipped (302 mb) and a couple of hours later they were in my google desktop index, I then started using slogger http://www.kenschutte.com/slogger/ which also copies a nice webpage and creates a web index
http://marcsobel.com/email/slogger0.xml with no discernible delay in contrast with furl which takes about 20 seconds but has better commenting facilities.

long story, I click one button and save every web page I might want to remember. I figure I will never run out of hard drive storage.

Lots of external memory.

[anne]

Please notice this important reading aid from the New York Times:

"Tips

"To find reference information about the words used in this article, hold down the ALT key and click on any word, phrase or name. A new window will open with a dictionary definition or encyclopedia entry."

So, when we have a question in reading we have an immediate reference source on any term or passage in a New York Times article. A wonderful resource.