ISU Library Basics 

FEATURE

EXAMPLE

DESCRIPTION

AND, +

+retention

Default AND

OR

myanmar OR burma

Capitalize the OR

" "

"student enrollment"

Put quotes around phrases

-

retention -incarcerated

Use – for NOT

intitle:

intitle:"Indiana state university"

Finds the word in the title of the Web page

site:

site:indstate.edu

site:.edu

Finds word within a site or top level domain and all its subdirectories

hostname:

Autos.yahoo.co

Finds all documents from a host

url:

url:lib.indstate.edu

Finds a specific URL

inurl:

inurl:help

Finds the string in the URL

link:

link:library.indstate.edu

Finds pages linking to the URL

linkdomain:

linkdomain:indstate.edu

Finds pages linking to the specified domain

define:

define:sedulous

Defines a word

originurlextension:

originurlextension:pdf

originurlextension:html

Limits to a file type using the extension

region:

region:africa

The domain and country limits on the advanced search pages can be expanded to groups by adding the following codes to other search terms

feature: acrobat

feature:acrobat

Page links to Adobe Acrobat PDF files

feature:applet

feature:applet

Page has embedded Java applets

feature:activex

feature:activex

Page has ActiveX controls or layouts

feature:audio

feature:audio

Page links to several audio formats

feature:flash

feature:flash

Page links to or has Flash files

feature:form

feature:form

Page uses forms

feature:frame

feature:frame

Page uses frames

feature:homepage

feature:homepage

Finds personal pages which use a tilde ~ before their directory

feature:image

feature:image

Page includes gif, jpg, and other image files

feature:index

feature:index

Home pages only

feature:javascript

feature:javascript

Pages uses JavaScript

feature:meta

feature:meta

Page includes meta tags

feature:script

feature:script

Page has embedded scripts

feature:shockwave

feature:shockwave

Page links to or has embedded shockwave files

feature:table

feature:table

Page uses tables

feature:video

feature:video

Page links to or has embedded video files

feature:vrml

feature:vrml

Page links to VRML files