You can use some of the more advanced features in Google to narrow and refine your searches. To make searches for a topic you’re researching more relevant you can restrict the search to a certain site domain, file type and date. This makes your search current, specific and targeted. In this example, I show you how to narrow a basic search on “Technology Enhanced Learning” down from 5m hits to return just hits from “.gov.uk” in “.pdf” format (most common format for official published documents) since “2011”…
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