Sering kali saya menjumpai orang-orang yang kesulitan mencari resource (atau sumber atau referensi) di internet, terutama bagi mereka yang sedang mempelajari bidang atau topik yang baru. Kita tahu bahwa internet merupakan gudang informasi terbesar saat ini, dan seharusnya kita dapat memperoleh resource yang kita cari diinternet, apalagi jika resource tersebut berhubungan dengan penelitian.
Tool yang sangat berguna dalam mencari resource di internet adalah search engine. Semua orang pasti akan menggunakan search engine saat mereka mencari resource, tetapi yang menjadi masalah adalah banyak orang tidak tahu apa yang mereka
cari saat mereka berhadapan langsung dengan input box search engine. Bingung, kemudian coba-coba
input beberapa kata, jika beruntung mereka mendapatkan apa yang mereka cari (walaupuan mungkin hasilnya tidak maksimal), jika tidak umumnya mereka putus asa.
Internet diciptakan sebagai teknologi yang lebih bersifat sosial daripada teknis. Dari suatu tempat (site) dapat memperoleh banyak sumber-sumber lain seperti artikel, site lain, tutorial, presentasi yang berkaitan, bahkan tidak jarang ditemui komunitas-komunitas. Hal-hal ini akan membantu dalam pencarian resource yang kita perlukan.
Artiket ini akan menyajikan tips-tips pencarian resource di internet berdasarkan pengalaman saya
dalam mencari resource terutama jika kita tidak mengenal bidang atau topik bahan yang akan dicari.
Resource merupakan hal yang penting dalam mempelajari suatu topik tertentu.
Era informasi saat ini memungkinkan penyebaran informasi dan resource menjadi sangat cepat selain itu juga semakin mudah diakses terutama jika hal tersebut berkaitan dengan penelitian. Namun yang sering terjadi adalah banyak orang sulit menemukan informasi tersebut.

Query modifiers

site:
If you include [site:] in your query, Google will restrict the results to those websites in the given domain. For instance, [help site:www.google.com] will find pages about help within www.google.com. [help site:com] will find pages about help within .com urls. Note there can be no space between the “site:” and the domain.

This functionality is also available through Advanced Search page, under Advanced Web Search > Domains.
allintitle:
If you start a query with [allintitle:], Google will restrict the results to those with all of the query words in the title. For instance, [allintitle: google search] will return only documents that have both “google” and “search” in the title.

This functionality is also available through Advanced Search page, under Advanced Web Search > Occurrences.
intitle:
If you include [intitle:] in your query, Google will restrict the results to documents containing that word in the title. For instance, [intitle:google search] will return documents that mention the word “google” in their title, and mention the word “search” anywhere in the document (title or no). Note there can be no space between the “intitle:” and the following word.

Putting [intitle:] in front of every word in your query is equivalent to putting [allintitle:] at the front of your query: [intitle:google intitle:search] is the same as [allintitle: google search].
allinurl:
If you start a query with [allinurl:], Google will restrict the results to those with all of the query words in the url. For instance, [allinurl: google search] will return only documents that have both “google” and “search” in the url.

Note that [allinurl:] works on words, not url components. In particular, it ignores punctuation. Thus, [allinurl: foo/bar] will restrict the results to page with the words “foo” and “bar” in the url, but won’t require that they be separated by a slash within that url, that they be adjacent, or that they be in that particular word order. There is currently no way to enforce these constraints.

This functionality is also available through Advanced Search page, under Advanced Web Search > Occurrences.
inurl:
If you include [inurl:] in your query, Google will restrict the results to documents containing that word in the url. For instance, [inurl:google search] will return documents that mention the word “google” in their url, and mention the word “search” anywhere in the document (url or no). Note there can be no space between the “inurl:” and the following word.

Putting “inurl:” in front of every word in your query is equivalent to putting “allinurl:” at the front of your query: [inurl:google inurl:search] is the same as [allinurl: google search].