[Here'’s a nifty little tidbit that I picked up on Lifehacker, during my lunchtime blog reading. This may be old news to most of you, but it is new to me and seems like it would have great applications in reference work, so I thought I'd share.]
I was already aware of the fact that you can limit your Google search to one specific Web site, à la:
"bird flu"”site:www.cdc.gov
pandemic influenza 1918 site:www.cdc.gov
However, I did not know that you can use the same structure to restrict your searches to a particular top-level domain, à la:
"bird flu"”site:.gov
pandemic influenza 1918 site:.gov
I wasn'’t able to find any documentation about this on the Google help pages, but the buzz is that this trick works with top-level domains (.gov, .org, .edu, .mil, .com, and .net) and with country domains like .uk (United Kingdom) or .va (Vatican City State).
Call me easy to please, but I think that this little feature is mighty cool.
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Google provides a list of all its Web Search Features.
The current favorite of Jane, one of our part-time librarians, is define.
I think that define is pretty cool too, though I'm also very hooked on OneLook
Another of my Google favorites is Calculator because I'm one of those people who can never ever remember how many feet there are in a mile and that sort of thing.
The calculator rocks! Didn't know about the easy limiting by domain though. Very cool.
Yeah, I usually do domain limiting on the Advanced Search screen too. Pretty hand to just use in the regular search too though. I need a cheat sheet of all those commands!
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