Google is a powerful search tool, which is often underutilized.
Here's a quick list of various filtering and advanced search features available to you.
- Filter results by type: images, video, news, etc.
- Narrow down results by country, and publication date
- Use "quotation marks" to search for an exact phrase
- Boolean operator OR helps when searching for synonyms
- A dash right before a -term, will exclude it from results
- filetype: will search for specific files (e.g. pdf)
- site: will find info published on a specific site, or domain (e.g. .edu)
- Google Advanced Search is a guided search interface, which will help you search all of the above from one place