What is the asterisk (*) used for in Google searches?

To fill in phrases you don't know

When should you use the minus (-) symbol in Google searches?

To exclude words from the results page

When would you use ~ in a Google search?

When you're searching for concepts that have many different phrasings

When might using OR be helpful in Google searches?

To find words that have multiple synonyms

When would you use "site:[website URL]" in a Google search?

If you're trying to limit searches to viewpoints or good sources

What can you use quotes ("") for in Google?

To find the exact wording of a phrase in an article

What are two alternative search engines to Google? (Both should be correct!)

Google Scholar, Think Tank Search

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1
What is the asterisk (*) used for in Google searches?
To fill in phrases you don't know
To exclude certain words from your results
To find synonyms for words
To find results from a specific source
2
When should you use the minus (-) symbol in Google searches?
To look for content from a specific website
To expand your search as much as possible
To exclude words from the results page
To find multiple words together
3
What are TWO things you should balance while looking for articles?
Recency and time
Author and qualifications
Qualifications and recency
Bias and qualifications
4
True or false: The more words you include in a Google search the better.
True
False
5
When would you use ~ in a Google search?
When you don't know the name for a specific term
When you're trying to find results from a certain website
When you're looking for multiple words together
When you're searching for concepts that have many different phrasings
6
When might using OR be helpful in Google searches?
To find words that have multiple synonyms
When you're not sure what you're looking for
To find multiple words together
To find exact quotes
7
When would you use "site:[website URL]" in a Google search?
If you want to exclude some words from the Google search
If you're trying to limit searches to viewpoints or good sources
If you're looking for specific quotes
If you don't want to see results from a specific website
8
What's the key word in a Google search that can make two words show up close to each other in an article?
NEAR
AROUND
WITH
AND
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What can you use quotes ("") for in Google?
To find the exact wording of a phrase in an article
To exclude words from a Google search
To find titles of articles
To find quotes said by famous people
10
What are two alternative search engines to Google? (Both should be correct!)
Think Tank Search, Archive.is
Google Scholar, Think Tank Search
Google News, Google
Google Scholar, Archive.is

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