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• Finds words with the same stem (like “running” when you typed “run”) • Makes some of your search terms optional Google does this in an attempt to make natural language searching work well for you. Often this gives you good results, but sometimes it doesn’t. In those cases, you can use Google’s “verbatim” search. To find it, enter your search terms, and on the results screen look for the “Tools” menu on the far right. Select it and you’ll see a sub- menu that includes the date filters discussed previously. Next to that is a menu that says, “All Results.” Select that to switch to “Verbatim.” Now your results won’t be influenced by the items mentioned above.4 Advanced Search Features Google Advanced Search has several features worth knowing about. You can find the advanced screen by looking in the Settings menu for “Advanced Search,” either on Google’s home page or on your results screen. The first few choices are “Find pages with...” • All of these words • This exact word or phrase • Any of these words • None of these words One thing to keep in mind is that even when you use these features, Google still follows its practices mentioned in the previous section, such as making some of your search terms optional or finding words with the same stem. For example, if you were to enter the following terms into the box marked “all of these words,”— amazon echo public library—you would get some results that don’t include every word, such as a story about Amazon Echo in a school library (missing “public”) or a book on Amazon about public libraries (missing “echo”). To make sure all of your terms are included, use the verbatim search, described in the previous section. You can also use quotes around a single term to make sure it is included in your results. If you ever see “missing:term | must include:term” under a result, you can click the link on the term itself, after “must include.” This will put pages containing that word back into your results set. Using Google Effectively 5