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TIPS AND TRICKS WHEN USING GOOGLE SEARCH:

• Capitalisation - Google searches are NOT case sensitive, this means ALL letters, regardless of how you type them, will be understood as lower case. For example, searches for helen clark, Helen Clark, and HeLeN cLaRk will all return the same results.

• No need to include "and" - Google only returns pages that include your search terms. There is no need to include "and" between terms. Keep in mind that the order in which the terms are typed will affect the search results.

• Only search using the keywords - Google excludes common words (also called stop words) like “I” , “the” etc from its search even if you type them in, (unless you add a + sign in front - see below).

• Using Quotation Marks - use these if you want to search for an exact phrase or a name. For example "Chelsea Sugar" will only find pages that contain the exact phrase not pages containing only Chelsea or Sugar. Quotation marks are very effective for searching for proper names, eg "John Key".

• Use operators to refine your search - use * to make a search more generic, use + to add a common word, use - to leave a word. For example type nz exports +to * -china will show pages about NZ exports to places excluding China.

• Search a specific site or group of sites - use "site:" if you want to search for all matches to a phrase within a site. For example typing in molasses site:chelsea.co.nz will give you lots of pages on molasses only from the Chelsea refinery site. To search a group of sites, use site:group. For example site:school.nz will search NZ school sites. Typing in site:school.* will search school sites from multiple countries (with NZ sites first).

• To get a definition - use "def:" if you want to get a quick definition of a word. For example typing in def:blogging will give you lots of different definitions from different sources with links.

• Tackling US and UK spellings - use the term "OR" (must be in capital letters) to get information based on two different spellings (eg US and UK English). For example searching for "doughnut OR donut" will return results with both types of spellings.

• To search using number ranges - use ".." between the numbers (two . For example cameras $100..$500 will return pages with the word camera plus a dollar figure between $100 and $500.

• To search recently changed pages - click on advanced search to the right of the search button. Then scroll down till you see date, usage rights, numeric ranges and more, click + next to this and then from the date box choose between past 24 hours, past week, past month or past year.

• Use google as a calculator - just type the expression into the search bar to return the answer.