

It may be the best known of these features, but we can’t leave it out because it’s also the most important. – XLIFF BATCH SEARCH AND REPLACE – Global searches and replacements
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However, thanks to a fast succession of updates, it’s gradually added new features which may sometimes go unnoticed but which will undoubtedly make life a lot easier for you if you know how to make the most of them. With a varying degree of controversy, Translation Workspace Xliff Editor has become one of the most widely-used CAT tools around today.Your humble servant, who has been working in this field for many years now, remembers how it was originally a rather limited tool.

Related: searches for other URLs of a similar nature.Įxample: related:Query in site: restricts your search to a specific site.Īllinurl: restricts the results to documents containing the word (of the query) in the URLONLY.Īllintitle: restricts the results to documents containing the word (of the query) in the title only.Ĭache: Searches in cache versions of pages indexed by Google.Įxample: cache:~: Searches for your keyword and its synonyms.ĭictionary: Searches for dictionary sites about the topic you enter.ĭefine: Searches for definitions of your keyword.By Antonio Montañez, Senior Project Manager ) or use the handy Faganfinder Google interface () to use Gregorian dates.įiletype: Searches for any file name extensions. You will need to convert your Gregorian date to a Julian date by means of a date conversion utility (e.g. Note that daterange works with Julian dates, not the Gregorian dates we use every day. Link: Typing in the "web page address" will give you a list of all pages linking to that specific URL.Įxample: link:Daterange: limits search to a range of dates. Site: searches only sites or top-level domains. Inanchor: searches only the descriptive text of a link, whether it is a text or picture. Intext: searches only the text in the body of the web page. InURL: searches only the URLs (Internet addresses). Intitle: searches only the titles of the web pages. They are great tools for narrowing down your results. Special syntaxes let you search specific parts of web pages or specific types of information. Google will search for “freelance”, “translator”, “proof-reader translator”, “freelance translator” and “freelance proof-reader”. This feature allows combining common syntaxesĮxample: freelance (translator | proof-reader) “freelance translator”, “freelance jobs”, “freelance work” etc. Google will search for the word freelance and any other word succeeding it, e.g.

Google will search for the exact words: “Dutch translator” Google will search for “translator” or “proofreader” Similarly, insert “-“ before a word you want ignored (e.g. If you want to include them in your search line, add “+” in front (e.g. Google will ignore common words such as: “a”, “the”, “and”, “of”. Searching for “translation agency”, “Translation Agency” or “TRANSLATION AGENCY” will produce the same results. If you need more words, it may be helpful to use the “wildcard” syntax (*) to replace common words (see further), which Google will not count.īy default, if you type more than one word, Google will assume you want all words to be included in the search result, as if you had typed “AND” between each word. If you type more, all words after the tenth word will be ignored.
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Those of you who would like to have the full document with screenshots of the examples, can get it free of charge from The main part of this guide is dedicated to special syntaxes. Those who do take the time to read them may still learn something new. It starts with some basic points and a short list of common syntaxes, which most readers may be tempted to skip. This short guide may give you a better insight in efficient searching and will reveal some lesser-known tips and tricks that will help you to get more out of Google. However, we have all experienced that searching efficiently is an art in itself. It helps us find background information on subjects we are dealing with, find similar texts, check spellings and frequency of words… Google is the key to a treasure of information. Many translators have discovered the strength of the popular Internet search engine Google as a daily aid in finding information on the giant web.
