Answers for the google test located @ http://www.ghacks.net/google-search-exam/
1. Basic: Does it make a difference if you search for Google Hacks or google hacks ?
No
2. Basic: What´s the correct search term if you are looking for Star Wars Episode I (note: more than one answer possible)?
Star Wars Episode +I
“Star Wars Episode I”
3. Basic: You´re looking for red herrings, search results should not show any brown ones. How would your search look like ?
red herrings -brown
4. Basic: You want to search the microsoft.com site for windows patches. What´s the best search for this ?
site:microsoft.com windows patches
5. Basic: You are looking for alternate download locations for the latest windows patch, you don´t want to use the busy microsoft site.
-site:microsoft.com windows patch
6. Basic: You are looking for webpages whose title has the word Nano in them
intitle:nano
7. Basic: You´ve heard that digg.com had some interesting articles, how would you only search for everything thats hosted on digg.com ?
site:digg.com
8. Basic: You are looking for PDF Files about money, the best search term would be..
filetype:pdf money
9. Basic:You are looking for soccer websites, which search would give the most relevant results ?
inurl:soccer
10. Basic: IS the operator – the same as NOT when you search in google ?
no
11. Advanced:You are looking for related sites of digg.com, how would a good search look like ?
related:digg.com
12. Advanced: I only want to find pages that have articles about icecream written between 01.11.2004 and 01.12.2004 ?
icecream daterange:2453311-2453341
13. Advanced: The google daterange operator uses which date system ?
Julian Date
14. Advanced: To only search the body text of a website for panties you´d do the following ?
intext:panties
15. Advanced: You want to know which and how many sites link to digg.com !
link:digg.com
16. Advanced: You want to find the phone number of Bill Gates living in New York ?
phonebook: Bill Gates NY
17. Advanced: Does Google allow wildcard searches ?
yes
18. Advanced: You want to buy a Ipod Nano and pay between 250-300$ ?
Ipod Nano $250..300
19. Advanced: You´d like to find a review and showtimes of the movie Doom ?
movie: doom
20. Advanced: You are looking for the definition of paradigm ?
define:paradigm