tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4953008377950396317.post8194551097671394563..comments2024-03-28T18:39:59.184-07:00Comments on SearchReSearch: Answer (part 2): Can you find the reference for... Dan Russellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13603209997260423532noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4953008377950396317.post-49727231228381703162015-04-15T09:33:59.843-07:002015-04-15T09:33:59.843-07:00Thanks Dr. Russell for the answer. One question th...Thanks Dr. Russell for the answer. One question the article Hans found was the one you read time ago or is just the same topic? I ask because maybe you read it in paper and not everything is online. <br /><br />Great tips and knowledge in these challenge. I didn't know about all the sites you mentioned or even about searching for the entire paper. I was reading some and only read the abstract in many cases. Now, I know how to look for the whole thing. <br /><br />Thanks Luis for posting more details about "EXT". Ramon Gonzalezhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16129830563029534511noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4953008377950396317.post-23312968134347730422015-04-15T06:39:09.857-07:002015-04-15T06:39:09.857-07:00Tip for accessing EBSCO worked fine in Canada as w...Tip for accessing EBSCO worked fine in Canada as well. List of databases screen slightly different results (Academic Search Complete - my result gave me Academic Elite or Academic Premier) but I just selected all and got the same result as you did. I added the screenshot of results for my area for the benefit of other Canadians searching. <br />https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ruX-ZO2gy2HDOn8x89h0dG4j7ivHT0Fc-uNxTIK2Pnw/edit?usp=sharing<br /><br />Great tip. Rosemary Mhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12291661159622665464noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4953008377950396317.post-28819459552570269322015-04-15T00:56:59.628-07:002015-04-15T00:56:59.628-07:00This has all been very interesting!
Among many ot...This has all been very interesting!<br /><br />Among many other things, I loved to learn about the "EXT" shortcut.<br /><br />I found out that, although it works pretty much the same as "FILETYPE" and gives pretty much the same results, it is not exactly an alias for it. Nor is it undocumented, as claimed on every guide on Google operators I've read on the web. Here's from the latest version (December 2013) of <a href="https://static.googleusercontent.com/media/www.google.com/en//support/enterprise/static/gsa/docs/admin/72/gsa_doc_set/xml_reference/xml_reference.pdf" rel="nofollow"><i>Google Search Appliance : Search Protocol Reference</i></a> (this is the official reference guide for the <a href="https://www.google.com/work/search/products/gsa.html" rel="nofollow">Google Search Appliance</a>):<br /><br />"<b>File Extension Filtering</b><br />The query prefix ext: filters the results to include only documents with the specified file extension. No spaces can come between ext: and the type. For example, ext:pdf, which retrieves all documents with the pdf extension.<br />You can combine this prefix with the filetype prefix to construct the following types of query : filetype:pdf AND ext:pdf, which retrieves all documents with the Mime type pdf and with the pdf extension.<br />You can exclude file types by putting a minus sign before ext, such as -ext:pdf. […]<br />Sample usage:<br />whitepaper ext:doc OR ext:pdf"Luís Miguel Viterbohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13198394145108636883noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4953008377950396317.post-31443325173755084622015-04-14T23:02:21.663-07:002015-04-14T23:02:21.663-07:00Dan, Thanks for this clear explanation.
I have hea...Dan, Thanks for this clear explanation.<br />I have heard from several search gurus, that repeating the most important search terms in a query gives better results (eg http://www.rba.co.uk/search/TopSearchTips.shtml). Can you please elaborate at one time a little bit on how this works? Does this have anything to do with relevance ranking?Hanshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16362447090339269962noreply@blogger.com