CT Family Court — Basic Search Tips

For most, the term Google is synonomous with Internet search — and for good reason. We've come to expect that anything we want to know about, we can find through a quick Google search. Most often, we provide 2 or 3 keywords and Google will respond with thousands of possible matches. In some cases, millions! So the trick is to learn how to use some basic search operators to filter results down to the fewest, most relevant results to find what you may be looking for.

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Using Keywords and the Similar Terms Feature
Each word provided is called a keyword. If we provide a first and last name, that's two keywords that we're asking Google to find on the resulting web pages. If we add a third word, that will filter the results even further.

In the example below, we conduct a search for an attorney to see if there is any public record of a reprimand or misconduct. By using the tilde feature, we can ask Google to find pages that include the word reprimand OR any keyword which Google thinks may have a similar meaning to the term provided.

We do this by placing the tilde symbol immediately before the word, in this case ~reprimand.
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In the sample results above (click image above to launch search and view live results), the first item is a 1996 newspaper article from the Hartford Courant describing malfeasance and acts of dishonesty and professional misconduct on the part of a few Connecticut attorneys.