Advanced Catalog Search


To access the Advanced Catalog Search, click the link next to the search box found near the top of nearly any Google Catalog page. When you click the Advanced Catalog Search link from a result page, your search terms appear automatically in the Advanced Catalog Search page in the “with all the words” box.

Setting the advanced search settings is similar to any other Google Web search. You can focus your search terms, as shown in Figure 7.4, by limiting your search to search results matching all your search terms, with an exact phrase, with at least one of the words within a list of words, or by limiting the search by excluding pages with a specified term or phrase.

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Figure 7.4: Focus your searches to find the right catalog.

Unlike other Google searches, the advanced search features allow you to search for a specific catalog title - for example, The Sports Authority. In the Return catalogs with the title box, type all or part of the name of the vendor who publishes the catalog. If you type part of a name, you may get more than one catalog with vendors that have similar names. For example, typing Sports will give you 1,340 results, of which The Sports Authority is only one. When you know the exact name of the vendor, you may also want to enclose the name of the vendor in quotes to better focus your search.

You can choose to focus your search by selecting a category for your search. These categories are similar to the ones listed on the main Google Catalogs page. Select one of the 16 different categories from the drop-down list. You can choose one. If you need to search on multiple categories, you may need to perform more one than one search, changing the catalog category each time.

The last advanced search criterion allows you to specify whether you want to see only recent catalogs or all catalogs by the different vendors. Of course, specifying all catalogs increases the potential number of search results but may show you old and out-of-date catalogs.



Google Power Tools Bible
Google Power Tools Bible
ISBN: 0470097124
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2004
Pages: 353

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