RESEARCH TIPS
Google may be the world’s largest search engine,but are you making the most of it? Maximise your Google research potential with advice from Tarja Moles
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s you most likely know, Google (www.google. com or www.google.co.uk) is the world’s largest search engine. It has been so popular over the years that the neologism ‘to google’ was incorporated into the Oxford English Dictionary almost twenty years ago as a term for searching online. Although many of us use it daily, do we really know how to get the most out of it?
How to search
What makes Google so great is that it allows you to search intuitively. You just write your keyword(s) – or even a simple question (eg What time does the British Library open?) – and you’re presented with a list of results. As you’re typing your keyword(s), it even provides assistance by auto-predicting what you might be intending to write and checking your spelling in the process.