You can exclude as many words as you want by using the - sign in front of all of them, for example. For example, in the query , the minus sign is used as a hyphen and will not be interpreted as an exclusion symbol whereas the query will search for the words 'anti-virus' but exclude references to software. The minus sign should appear immediately before the word and should be preceded with a space. gov domain and will return results only from Iraqi sites.Īttaching a minus sign immediately before a word indicates that you do not want pages that contain this word to appear in your results. You can also specify a whole class of sites, for example will return results only from a. The simpler queries or will usually be just as good, though they might return results from other sites that mention the New York Times. For example, the query will return pages about Iraq but only from. Google allows you to specify that your search results must come from a given website. For example, a search for (with quotes) will miss the pages that refer to Timothy G. By insisting on phrase search you might be missing good results accidentally. Google already uses the order and the fact that the words are together as a very strong signal and will stray from it only for a good reason, so quotes are usually unnecessary.

'dentist Sydney'īy putting double quotes around a set of words, you are telling Google to consider the exact words in that exact order without any change. If there are results appearing which are not relevant, apply one or more of the boolean operators below to filter them out.Īs alerts are emailed out apply further boolean operators for any unwanted results. Set up as many individual alerts as you would like. Select 'More options' to further refine the settings:Ĥ.

Enter the keyword/s you wish to monitor.ģ. Go to Google Alerts (you'll be prompted to log into your Google account, or create one).Ģ.

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