Find better information more quickly using these tips and tricks.

• " " Search for an exact word or phrase using quotation marks:

Example:

Searching for: "the hunger games" will give you results with the full book or movie title, instead of pages that have each of the words "hunger" and "games" somewhere on the page.

• Use the minus sign to weed out results that you don't want.

Example:

If you want to find information on the book The Hunger Games, but not the movie, search for: “The Hunger Games” -movie.

• To find results from a specific website, start your search with "site:"

Example:

If you want to find articles from The New York Times about The Hunger Games, set up your search like this: site:nytimes.com “the hunger games”

• Find results from a specific country by combining "site: " with a country code.

Example:

If you want to find websites and news articles from the UK about Harry Potter, set up your search like this: site: UK “harry potter”

Find a list of country codes here.

• Use OR to search for more than one search term at once.

Example:

If you want to do a search for results that use either the term "climate change" or the term "global warming," set up your search like this: climate change OR global warming

• Don't forget to use the tabs at the top of your search results!

  You can narrow down your results by choosing what type of source you want to see.

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