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The Eight-fold Path to Right Searching: Tips, Tasks, & Tools
course content by P. F. Anderson, pfa@umich.edu,
presented by P. F. Anderson and Karen Reiman-Sendi.
Tip #5: What filetype: is best for what you want?
Tips:
Basics |
"1" |
(2) |
3=OR |
4=site |
5=filetype |
+6 |
-7 |
~8 |
More Tips (Refinements):
Compare |
Truncate |
Terms |
Quality |
Features |
Features 2 |
Expert |
Redux
Limiting by type of file is especially useful when you have reason to suspect that the answer you need will be in a certain format.
Examples:
Tips:
Basics |
"1" |
(2) |
3=OR |
4=site |
5=filetype |
+6 |
-7 |
~8 |
More Tips (Refinements):
Compare |
Truncate |
Terms |
Quality |
Features |
Features 2 |
Expert |
Redux
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"To buy things at sales is very much like buying things at an auction; if you really know what you want and something about values, you can often do marvellously well; but if you are easily bewildered and know little of values, you are apt to spend your good money on trash." -- Post, Emily. "Chapter XXXIII: Dress" Etiquette. 1922. URL: http://www.bartleby.com/95/33.html
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