Google Searching Tip

Here in the SCUP office, we often get calls from members trying to find something. Sometimes they have a paragraph or two from an original manuscript or article, but either don't know where it was published or how to access it. We've discovered a great secret: Take a fairly distinct sentence from the document, put it into Google search with quotation marks around it, and you'll often find a link directly to the original, or a copy someone else has made available on line.

For example, you might have a paragraph from an article that includes this sentence: " Investment managers faced several unexpected jolts, including the credit freeze, subprime mortgage meltdown, and slowing U.S. and world economies." A Google search for those terms, in that order, kept together by quotation marks yields a strike on the very first listed link. It's a recent Business Officer article about the current trajectory of institutional endowments.

Seriously, this searching trick is not to be underestimated.