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Figure 2.3 Advanced Search terms pull-down menu

• Terms appearing
As mentioned earlier, Google considers many locations when looking
for your search terms, including ones that are not even part of the doc-
uments returned as results. This field allows you to specify where you
would like your terms to appear. These options are “anywhere in the
page,” “in the title of the page,” “in the text of the page,” “in the URL
of the page,” and “in links to the page” (figure 2.3).

• SafeSearch
As we’ve mentioned, SafeSearch is Google’s technology for filtering
out potentially offensive content. This option allows you to change
your browser settings to help eliminate adult content from your search
results. By default, the SafeSearch filter is disabled. To enable Safe-
Search, open the pull-down menu, then click on “Filter explicit results.”
This will filter sexually explicit video and images from Google Search
result pages, as well as results that might link to explicit content. To
disable the SafeSearch filter, open the menu again and click “Show
most relevant results.” Please be aware that no filter is perfect. Even
Google says that “we do our best to keep SafeSearch as up-to-date and
comprehensive as possible, but inappropriate sites will sometimes slip
through the cracks.”

• Reading level
Limit your search results to a specific reading level: Basic, Intermediate,
or Advanced, as shown in figure 2.4. You can also choose to see results
annotated with reading levels, which includes a percentage breakdown
of results by reading level.

• File type
This field allows you to limit or exclude results in a particular file for-
mat, such as PDF, Postscript, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and RTF (rich-
text format). For example, many government reports are published in
PDF format, so limiting to that format could make finding a particular
report easier.