Hi. Thanks for joining us. Today we're going to take a look at the advanced search functions
of Google to see if we can narrow it down a little bit and get to what we actually want
out of those thousands of hits that you usually get. I decided this morning I'd like to learn
more about the concept of freedom and agency and philosophy, so I'm just going to search for that.
Okay. It looks like we have about 40 million hits that pop up, and none of these appear to be
relevant to the discipline of philosophy. So I'd like to search this just as a phrase. The way
I can do that is to go to the advanced search function over here by the normal search button.
And just below this first bar we have a phrase search, this exact wording or phrase. So I'm
going to delete this and move it here. Notice up top this just puts quotes around the phrase we
want. This is good. This brings me down to about 29,000 hits, and lots of these look
relevant to what I'm after. I'd like to see what Kant has to say in the subject. So I'm going to
put his name in here. That narrows it down a little more. I'd also like to see what Leibniz has
to say. So I'm going to toss his name in the hat. This is good. We have about 650 hits. Now I'd like
to know that what I'm looking at is from a scholarly source or at least something that I can
trust. So I'm going to go back to our advanced search function. And here we're able to limit it by
domain or site. So as you can see here by example it gives us a dot edu. So we can search for any
results that are actually at a website that's a university or college. So I'm going to search by
dot edu. And this is even better. Now we have 10 hits. As you can see over on the left some of
these are labeled with different file types. So a couple of these happen to be PDFs. And I'm just
going to narrow my search down to only PDFs. So go back to the advanced search function. And here
you can search by format by file type. So I'm going to bring this down. And looks like PDFs are
first option. I'm going to search for that. And perfect. This only gives us three hits which is
just enough for me to get through before launch. Okay. So we've now learned how to search phrases
on Google. We've also learned how to limit by site or domain and by file type. There are several
other advanced search functions that we can use. But this is a good start. Thanks a lot.
