Following are important Google search & advanced search options / operators which can help you master Google search:
- Find web pages that have:
- all these words: This will help you in finding web pages that contains all the search terms you type in.
- exact wording or phrase:
- This will help you in finding web pages which contains the exact phrase which you have typed in.
- You can also use this feature in standard search by surrounding your phrase with quotes.
- Example: “Red Hat” will give you those web pages which contain the exact phrase “Red Hat”.
- One or More of these words:
- This will help you in finding web pages that contains at least one of the words you type in.
- You can also use this feature in standard search by using [OR] between your words.
- Example: online OR offline. This will give you those web pages which contains either online or offline or both.
- Don’t show pages that have:
- This will display only those pages that don’t contain the words you type in.
- This can also be used in standard search by adding a – (minus sign) to the beginning of the word which you don’t want.
- Example: Sport Shoes –Nike. This term will display results for sports shoes but will not display any pages which contain term Nike.
- Important: There should be no space between the – (minus sign) and word. See the above example.
- Results per Page: This will help you in setting the number of results which you want to view per page.
- Language: This will help you in specifying the language in which you want to see your results.
- File Type:
- This will help you in specifying the file format for your results. You can choose any format to see results in any file format.
- This can also be used in standard search by specifying type of file with [filetype:] query.
- Example: filetype:pdf. BY using this will only show results which are in PDF format.
- The supported file types are .pdf, .ps, .dwf, .kml, .kmz, .xls, .ppt, .doc, .rtf, .swf.
- Search within a site or domain:
- You can use this to search within a website or domain.
- You can also use this in standard search by using [site:] operator.
- Example: site:www.example.com shoes. This will search for shoes within website www.example.com.
- Important: There is no space between [site:] and the webpage url
- Where do you want keywords on page:
- You can specify where do you want your keywords to show i.e. anywhere on the page, in the title of the page, in the URL of the page, in the text of the page, in links to the page.
- You can also use allintitle, allinbody, allinurl, allinanchor tags in standard search for searching keywords in title of the page, in url of the page, in text on the page & in links to the page.
- Example: allintitle: Sport Shoes will display results which have sport shoes in title of the page
- Numeric Range:
- You can specify a numeric range in which you want results to be.
- The can also be used in standard search by specifying [..] in between numeric range.
- For example: 1000..1500 will display results that contain numbers within 1000 to 1500.
- Finding similar pages:
- You can find similar pages by using related query.
- Example: related:www.google.com will display results of websites which are related to google.com.
- Important: There is no space between [related:] and the webpage url.
- Finding Inbound links:
- You can find inbound links to a page or website by using [link:] query.
- Example: link:www.example.com will show inbound links which are coming to www.example.com
- Important: There is no space between [link:] and the webpage url
- Finding Cache Page:
- You can find cache page of any website or web page by using [cache:] query.
- Example: cache:www.example.com will show Google cache of that page and also the day and time on which it was cached.
- Important: There is no space between [Cache:] and the webpage url.
- Finding information about a webpage:
- Use [info:] to find information Google has about a webpage.
- Example: info:www.example.com will show info about www.example.com.
- Important: There is no space between [info:] and the webpage url.
- To find definition about a term:
- Use [define:] to find definition about a term gathered from various sources.
- Example: define:router will show definitions of router from around the web.
- intitle and inurl query:
- If you include [intitle:] or [inurl:] in your query, Google will restrict the results to documents containing that word in the title or url.
- Example: intitle:computer search will return documents that mention the word "computer" in their title, and mention the word "search" anywhere in the document (title or no).
inurl:computer search will return documents that mention the word "computer" in their url, and mention the word "search" anywhere in the document (url or no). - Important: There is no space between [intitle:], [inurl:] and the webpage url.
- Search for Synonyms:
- Use [~] if you want to search fro synonyms.
- Example: ~auto will return results for auto and its synonyms cars, trucks etc.
- [*] Asterisk:
- The [*] asterisk represents a missing word.
- Example: black * white will display results which includes black, [missing word] and white like black VS white, black red white etc.
- Mathematical Operators:
- [+]: Will add items. Example: 50+50+80 will return 180.
- [-]: Will subtract items. Example: 50 - 30 will return 20.
- [*]: will multiply items. Example: 10*100 will return 1000.
- [/]: will divide two items. Example: 100/10 will return 10.
- [%]: [10%100] or [10 mod 100] will return 10. You can use [%] or [mod] to calculate percentage.
- [^]: This will raise a number to the power of other. Example: 2^5 will return 32.
These are some of the major Google search operators or options which you need to keep in your mind while searching. This will make your search more effective and it will deliver more efficient results.
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