Communications

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.

1. Filter results by type: images, video, news, etc.
2. Narrow down results by country, and publication date
3. Use "quotation marks" to search for an exact phrase
4. Boolean operator OR helps when searching for synonyms
5. A dash right before a -term, will exclude it from results  
6. filetype: will search for specific files (e.g. pdf)
7. site: will find info published on a specific site, or domain (e.g. .edu)
8. Google Advanced Search is a guided search interface, which will help you search all of the above from one place