The -.com trick

Posted by Laura Bergells

February 16, 2005

If you are searching for educational PowerPoint presentation samples and examples…try the -.com trick.

When you go to your favorite search Engine (Google, Yahoo, MSN, etc.), trying searching for your favorite term as usual. For example, you can enter “PowerPoint presentations”, “free powerpoint templates”, and so forth ….but after you enter your phrase, type in

-.com

This will eliminate all commercial sites — the ones that end a a “dot com”. This means you’ll mainly get PowerPoint presentation sites that end in .edu or .org — these are educational sites that don’t try to sell you anything, but are likely to showcase the work of students or non-profit organizations.