My Google Trick

My favorite Google trick I learned was how to use the Advanced Search effectively. I used the first three lines, "all these words," "this exact wording or phrase," and "one or more of these words." I also changed the results per page from 10 to 20. When I searched " Janjaweed "Omar al-Bashir" Darfur OR genocide OR Sudan " I got 71,700 results. When I just searched "Darfur" in the basic Google search, I received 9,680,000 results. If I click News instead of Web results, I get 68 articles with my Advanced Search and 11,222 articles with the Basic Search. The first page of my Basic Search with web articles shows mostly support groups for Darfur, like savedarfur.org. There are also a lot of Q&A sites with basic information, and of course Wikipedia is at the top of my list. With my Advanced Search, Wikipedia was also the first two entires, but one for "War in Darfur" and one for "Janjaweed." The rest of the page had sites that were directly related to my topic, including some decisions made by the Sudan president Omar al-Bashir. I really like the Advanced Search and I'm going to use it to gather more research for my semester research project as well as my event project.