Once and for all: GRADUATE THEOLOGICAL FOUNDATION

Where have all the critics gone... long time passing...

I sure wish Levicoff and others who have criticized GTF in the past -- and seemingly rightly so, I might add... so, believe me, I'm not complaining, here, or anything like that -- would chime-in and indicate whether a reconsideration is in order, generally; and, if so, whether their opinions about GTF have (or could be) changed.

Just bumpin'

 

Intermediate Googling 201 (Hons)

The following search string, typed (exactly as you see it immediately below) into the Google search box, will first list as many pages as Google may easily find which contain the exact string "graduate theological foundation;" but will, once the easy ones have been listed, quickly degrade into also listing pages that contain only "graduate" or only "theological" or only "foundation" or combinations of any two or three, but not necessarily in a consecutive, ordered string:

• graduate theological foundation

The following string -- again, typed exactly as shown -- will list all web pages which have "graduate" and "theological" and "foundation" (all three) on them... but not necessarily in any order or even together as a phrase:

• +graduate +theological +foundation

The following string -- again, typed exactly as shown -- will list all web pages which have the exact phrase (or text string) "graduate theological foundation" on them:

• "graduate theological foundation"

The following string -- again, typed exactly as shown -- will list all web pages which have on them the text string "graduate theological foundation," and which also contain the exact text string, "south bend":

• +"graduate theological foundation" +"south bend"

The following string -- again, typed exactly as shown -- will list all web pages which contain the exact string "graduate theological foundation," and the exact string "south bend," but which do not also have the word "degreeinfo" on them:

• +"graduate theological foundation" +"south bend" -degreeinfo

The following string -- again, typed exactly as shown -- will list all web pages which have on them the exact text string "graduate theological foundation," but chosen only from among the pages on the web site degreeinfo.com:

• "graduate theological foundation" site:degreeinfo.com

The following string -- again, typed exactly as shown -- will list all web pages which have on them the exact text string "graduate theological foundation," but excluding .PDF files, and selected only from web sites which use the .edu gTLD:

• "graduate theological foundation" -".pdf" site:.edu

You can learn more about advanced Google searching by clicking here; and you can use a form to refine your search (but, in many cases, with not quite the precision that knowing how to use the operators will give you) by clicking here.

Additionally, there's some cool undocumented Google search stuff floating around out there that might be really helpful for you to know, as well, but is enough for now...

...and, anyway, mastering the above simple use of quotes and plus signs in precisely the right ways -- the the occasional additional use of the "site:" operator to narrow the selection criteria -- will, with little or no further help from additional operators and/or forms, make you able to find things on the Internet that others around you simply cannot; and you'll be the search guru of your crowd.

Hope that helps.