![]() ![]() For example, ?alyze or *alyze will give the same results as searching for alyze. You cannot use wildcard characters at the beginning of a word.Notes and cautions about truncation and wild cards: You can also use ? as a wildcard, for letters that may be different in the middle of a word, for example: environ* for environment, environmental, environmentalists, and so on.canad* for Canada, Canadian, Canadians, etc.To find multiple versions of the same words with different endings, use an *, for example: Search for variations of the same word: Truncation and wild cards To search for an exact word, and not variations of it, put quotation marks around it.įor instance, searching for "ableism" will retrieve articles, books, and other resources that refer to this exact word, and not articles or books with the terms able or ableist. You can also use this strategy to search for exact titles, or parts of titles, in articles, books, or other materials. Use quotation marks to search for phrases.įor instance, searching for "truth and reconciliation" will retrieve articles, books, and other resources that refer to this exact phrase, rather than articles or books that happen to contain the two separate words. Power searching tips and tricks in Basic search and Advanced search Search for a specific phrase However for certain types of searching, especially subject or topic searches, you may need to use more advanced techniques. Typing keywords from a combination of your topic, title, and/or an author's last name into either the Catalogue Basic search box, or using the provided fields in the Catalogue Advanced search, will often get you the result(s) you need from the Library's collections. If you are interested in a good coverage of Boolean Search basics and hints, check out the live repeat of my “Boolean Strings Basics” webinar along with 2 other popular webinars scheduled in the next few weeks.Use the SFU Library Catalogue to find books, articles, films, government documents, journals, newspapers, maps, and other media in the Library's collection. An additional advantage of using CSE’s is that Google will not bug you with Captchas. ![]() Google Custom Search Engines provide yet another option: all sites from a specified list can be excluded from the results. Google will search as usual this extension will just hide the results from these sites for you in your browser. Google used to have a preference setting to list sites to be excluded from all searches but it was dropped some time ago.Īnother option to block sites is by installing the Chrome Extension Personal Blocklist. I would also exclude site: while they have good resumes, I think they are better searched separately with Indeed’s own excellent advanced resume search. You may start adding to your search string something like The most straightforward way to avoid these “wrong” results is to directly exclude these wrong sites. In this case though “being positive” may not be the easiest approach, since there are too many variations of contact information that people use on resumes. ![]() Still, some show up in the results.īlocking the “wrong” sites can be done by “being positive” and including information in search strings, that those sites won’t have, for example, contact email addresses from popular free domains, posted on real resumes: Google is improving its filtering out “spam” sites and there’s not as many as before. There used to be many more “wrong” results across many searches (not just for resumes). Here is an example:Ģ) “Blind” resumes with some important information, such as the name and contact, removed. If you search for several keywords and find a list of resumes with previews, usually there’s no one resume in the list with all the keywords present – so the page is completely irrelevant. Two kinds of “wrong” pages from those sites may show up in Google search: They use this page structure (words cv or resume in page titles and URLs) to appear in search results. Paid sites that offer resume search certainly know about our These come from sites that make a special effort to be shown in the search results. There’s a different type of “wrong” results that cannot be removed by this strategy. In the previous post Excluding Non-Resumes: Be Positive I explained how to “think positively” and get non-resumes out of the way when searching for resumes. ![]()
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