ÿþ<Head><title>Interactive Google search forms for online language learning</title> <style type="text/css"> <!-- input.look { color: #00009C; background-color: #fff; border: solid; padding: .3em; border-width: thin; } --> </style> <script type="text/javascript" src="bookMark.js"></script> </Head> <Body> <form action="http://www.google.com/search" target=_blank name=f> <table border=1> <tr><td> <b>Search term</b>: <input type=text value="" name=as_epq style="width:60%"></td><td><b><font color=red>Required field</font></b> Enter your search term. It will be enclosed by double quotation marks by the form. If you want to generate more results, you can remove the quotation marks on the results page after you have clicked the search button.</td> </tr> <tr><td><SELECT name=tbs> <OPTION value="" selected>Choose a category </option> <OPTION value="bkv:p">Any documents </OPTION> <OPTION value="bkv:p,rltm:1">Latest documents</OPTION> <OPTION value="bkv:p,qdr:y,sbd:1">Any documents from past year sorted by date </OPTION> <OPTION value="bkv:p,qdr:y">Any documents from past year sorted by relevance</OPTION> <OPTION value="bkv:p,qdr:w,sbd:1">Any documents from past week sorted by date</OPTION> <OPTION value="bkv:p,qdr:w">Any documents from past week sorted by relevance</OPTION> <OPTION value="blg:1" >Blogs from any time sorted by relevance</OPTION> <OPTION value="blg:1,sbd:1" >Blogs from any time sorted by date</OPTION> <OPTION value="blg:1,qdr:y,sbd:1" >Blogs from past year sorted by date</OPTION> <OPTION value="bks:1,bkv:p,bkt:b">Books</OPTION> <OPTION value="bks:1,bkv:p,bkt:m">Magazines</OPTION> <OPTION value="frm:1">Forums</OPTION> <OPTION value="vid:1">Videos</OPTION> </SELECT> </td><td><b>Optional field</b> You can specify that Google search for documents sorted by date instead of relevance if you like. You can also specify that Google look into blogs or forums.</td> </tr> <tr><td><select name="as_filetype"> <option value="" selected>Choose a file format </option> <option value="pdf">PDF (.pdf)</option> <option value="xls">Microsoft Excel (.xls)</option> <option value="ppt">Microsoft Powerpoint (.ppt)</option> <option value="doc">Microsoft Word (.doc)</option> <option value="rtf">Rich Text Format (.rtf)</option> <option value="swf">Shockwave Flash (.swf)</option> <option value="mp3">MP3 (.mp3)</option> <option value="html">HTML (.html)</option> <option value="htm">HTML (.htm)</option> <option value="rss">RSS feed (.rss)</option> </select> </td><td><b>Optional field</b> If you know what file format you are looking for, e.g. a Word file, choose "Microsoft Word (.doc)"</td> </tr> <tr><td><select name="as_occt"> <option value="" selected>Anywhere on the page </option> <option value="title">in the title of the page </option> <option value="body">in the text of the page </option> <option value="url">in the URL of the page </option> </select> </td><td><b>Optional field</b> You may find pages with more information about your search term if you choose "in the title of the page".</td> </tr> <tr><td><select name="as_qdr"> <option value="" selected>From anytime </option> <option value="d">Past 24 hours </option> <option value="w">Past week </option> <option value="m">Past month </option> <option value="y">Past year</option> </select> </td><td><b>Optional field</b> If you are looking for something in the recent news, choose "past 24 hours" or "past week".</td> </tr> <tr><td><select name="cr"> <option value="" selected>From any region </option> <option value="countryAU">From Australia</option> <option value="countryCA">From Canada</option> <option value="countryCN">From China </option> <option value="countryFR">From France </option> <option value="countryDE">From Germany </option> <option value="countryHK">From Hong Kong</option> <option value="countryIN">From India</option> <option value="countryIE">From Ireland</option> <option value="countryMY">From Malaysia</option> <option value="countryNZ">From New Zealand</option> <option value="countrySG">From Singapore</option> <option value="countryGBK">From the UK</option> <option value="countryUS">From the USA</option> </select> </td><td><b>Optional field</b> If you know in which country the page is located, choosing the country may speed up your search.</td> </tr> <tr><td><select name="num"> <option value="10" selected>10 results per page</option> <option value="20">20 results per page</option> <option value="30">30 results per page</option> <option value="40">40 results per page</option> <option value="50">50 results per page</option> <option value="60">60 results per page</option> <option value="70">70 results per page</option> <option value="80">80 results per page</option> <option value="90">90 results per page</option> <option value="100">100 results per page</option> </select> </td><td><b>Optional field</b> By default, you will see 10 results per page. You can choose to display up to 100 results per page.</td> </tr> <tr><td>Specify words to exclude: <input type=text style="width:45%" value="" name=as_eq> </td><td><b>Optional field</b> If you do not want to find pages with certain words on them, enter them here. You can enter more than one word to exclude. Just put a space between the terms. If you want to add new words to exclude later, just put a minus sign before them in the search box on the result page, e.g. -sports -league -electronic.</td> </tr> <tr><td><select name="sitesearch"> <option value="" selected>Choose a website to search</option> <option value="grammar.ccc.commnet.edu"> Capital Community College </option> <option value="www.bbc.co.uk">BBC</option> <option value="writing.wisc.edu">UW Madison Writing Center</option> <option value="writing.colostate.edu">Writing Center at Colorado State University</option> <option value="newark.rutgers.edu">Lynch, Guide to Grammar and Style</option> <option value="owl.english.purdue.edu">The Purdue Online Writing Lab</option> <option value="web.mit.edu">Massachusetts Institute of Technology</option> <option value="www.temple.edu">Temple University</option> <option value="writing-program.uchicago.edu/">The University of Chicago</option> <option value="www.unc.edu">The University of North Carolina</option> <option value="web.cwoc.ufl.edu">Dial Center for Written and Oral Communication</option> <option value="en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page">Wikipedia</option> <option value="youtube.com">YouTube</option> <option value="www.ucl.ac.uk">Internet Grammar of English</option> </select> </td><td><b>Optional field</b> If you choose a website from the dropdown menu, do not specify a domain below. </td> </tr> <tr><td><input type=hidden name=ft value=i> Specify domain: <input type=text style="width:60%" value="" name=as_sitesearch> <input name=hl type=hidden value=en> </td><td><b>Optional field</b> You can limit your search to your own specified sites, e.g. www.cityu.edu.hk, or, as recommended, only educational sites (those that end in .edu). If you have chosen a website above, do not specify a domain here.</td> </tr> <tr><td colspan=2><input name=btnG type=submit value="Search Google"> <input type="hidden" name="safe" value="active"></td></tr> <tr><td colspan=2></form><b>Some search tips</b>: Not sure whether to say "leave rubbish in" or "leave rubbish into", compare the number of result pages for the two phrases. Not sure whether to say "an accident was happened" or "an accident happened", put an asterisk * before <i>happened</i> before searching Google, to see if you can find <i>was happened</i> in the result pages. If it actually shows up, are there many result pages or are there only a few? Not sure whether to add a singular or plural noun after "every one of the", put the phrase in the search box to see if the result pages show a singular or plural noun. To obtain more reliable results, limit your search to only educational sites by specifying domain as <font color=blue>edu</font>. </td></tr> </table><br> <form action="#"> <input class="look" type="button" value="Bookmark me!" onclick="bookmark('https://dl.dropbox.com/u/3572069/Google/google-search.htm','Interactive Google search forms')"> </form> If you have run out of search terms to use, click <a href=dropdowns.htm>here</a> to choose from my dropdown menus. Feel free to recommend new search terms or websites to include in the search forms to John Wong at <i>eljohnw@gmail.com</i> <br><br> <!-- Start of StatCounter Code --> <script type="text/javascript"> var sc_project=5425255; var sc_invisible=1; var sc_partition=57; var sc_click_stat=1; var sc_security="2bf057cf"; </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://www.statcounter.com/counter/counter.js"></script><noscript><div class="statcounter"><a title="blogspot visitor counter" href="http://www.statcounter.com/blogger/" target="_blank"><img class="statcounter" src="http://c.statcounter.com/5425255/0/2bf057cf/1/" alt="blogspot visitor counter" ></a></div></noscript> <!-- End of StatCounter Code --> </Body>