Use SPAUG's featured link to the Google search engine to search external to the SPAUG site.
In addition to searching the web, you can use Google to find specific information that is available offline or on specialized sites. Find out how at My Favorite Features by Nancy Blachman.
You can also use Google to confine your search to a specific site only, using the site: syntax in the Google search box; e.g., site:sampledomain.com.
For example, to find information about members on the SPAUG site, follow your search terms with site:www.pa-spaug.org; e.g., members site:www.pa-spaug.org
You can use an asterisk ("*") as a word wild card in Google searches --
www.researchbuzz.com/news/2002/jan03jan0902.html#googleadds
Alt-G refines a search, great if you do a lot of quick searches that you need to refine a few times
You can use the boolean "OR" (uppercased) in Google searches (Google's default is "AND") -- http://www.google.com/help/refinesearch.html. (One place this may cause a problem is in searches using the postal abbreviation for Oregon.)
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Google is Beta testing "Google Local," a local search utility much like Froogle (Google's online catalog search).
Here's a link to an undocumented Google feature:
you can go directly into a phonebook search on Google by using the phonebook: syntax. For example:
phonebook: starbucks, boston
will get you a listing of the two dozen odd Starbucks in Boston, all on one page. Information listed includes business name, phone number, address, and links to two map generators for that location.
Another example, phonebook: john doe, ca (city name or state abbreviation is required, commas seem to be optional; note city name having multiple locations without state specified will return the named person in all locations).
Note that once you have the Google page with the "Phonebook" radio button selected, you don't have to retype "phonebook:" in the search field. You can use a city name to reduce the number of listings returned. For example, compare Phonebook search results for "john public, ca" and "john public, los angeles, ca".
Google has many ways to search on numbers on the Internet, and you can find them all here:
www.google.com/help/features.html#number
For a another spot, one that makes all the Google features accessible, try www.soople.com
Can't find it with Google? TryBeyond Google. This includes the rich databases of information from businesses, universities, government agencies, and other organizations that the Web's search engines can't spider and thus can't include in their results. The article has the details.
The Internet Archive Wayback Machine puts the history of the World Wide Web at your fingertips. The Archive contains over 100 terabytes and 10 billion web pages archived from 1996 to the present. (Take a look at a SPAUG web page from 1999 - gone but not forgotten!)