Introduction to Google Desktop Search

This is a brief introduction to the way you can manipulate Google Desktop Search to get different results.

There are three main ways you can manipulate the results of Google Desktop Search:

1. By using double quotes.
2. Specifying the file type.
3. Specifying the folder you wish to search under.

Using Double Quotes

• "phrase" - if you put your search phrase in double quotation marks then Google Desktop will return only exact matches.
  

Specifying the file type

• filetype: - this will let you specify the filetype of the of the results returned. For example, if you enter 'Peter filetype:doc', it will return only Microsoft Word files that contain the word Peter in them.
  

Specify the search folder

• under: - lets you specify the folders in which Google Desktop will search for example we could search just for documents under "c:\word\".