Here's Google's page on how to use operators (similar to what Ma Bell used to have - "Hey Flo, get me John" and she knows to get John in your town and not John in New York) while searching http://support.google.com/websearch/...1265&ctx=topic

Princeton put together a nice little pdf http://www.princeton.edu/as/LNL/pres...0908Google.pdf Some of only works on Google, but the idea is there.

Ok - so I'm officially a geek.