Advanced Google Search Techniques

This article consists of techniques used to search more effectively through google.

• site: restricts results to sites within the specified domain. Example: 

site:google.com fox will find all sites containing the word fox, located within the *.google.com domain

• intitle: restricts results to documents whose title contains the specified phrase. Example:

intitle:fox fire will find all sites with the word fox in the title and fire in the text

• allintitle restricts results to documents whose title contains all the specified phrases.Example:

allintitle:fox fire will find all sites with the words fox and fire in the title, so it's equivalent to

intitle:fox intitle:fire

• inurl restricts results to sites whose URL contains the specified phrase. Example:

inurl:fox fire will find all sites containing the word fire in the text and fox in the URL

• allinurl restricts results to sites whose URL contains all the specified phrases. Example:

allinurl:fox fire will find all sites with the words fox and fire in the URL, so it's equivalent to

inurl:fox inurl:fire

• filetype, ext restricts results to documents of the specified type. Example:

filetype:pdf fire will return PDFs containing the word fire, while filetype:xls fox will return Excel spreadsheets with the word fox

• numrange restricts results to documents containing a number from the specified range. Example:

numrange:1-100 fire will return sites containing a number from 1 to 100 and the word fire.

The same result can be achieved with 1..100 fire.

• link restricts results to sites containing links to the specified location. Example:

link:www.google.com will return documents containing one or more links to www.google.com

• inanchor restricts results to sites containing links with the specified phrase in their descriptions.

Example: inanchor:fire will return documents with links whose description contains the word fire

(that's the actual link text, not the URL indicated by the link)

• allintext restricts results to documents containing the specified phrase in the text, but not in the title, link descriptions or URLs. Example:

allintext:"fire fox" will return documents which contain the phrase fire fox in their text only

• + specifies that a phrase should occur frequently in results. Example:

+fire will order results by the number of occurrences of the word fire

• - specifies that a phrase must not occur in results. Example:

-fire will return documents that don't contain the word fire.

• "" delimiters for entire search phrases (not single words). Example:

"fire fox" will return documents containing the phrase fire fox.

• . wildcard for a single character fire. Example :

         .fox will return documents containing the phrases fire fox, fireAfox, fire1fox, fire-fox etc.

• * wildcard for a single word fire. Example:

* fox will return documents containing the phrases fire the fox, fire in fox, fire or fox etc.

• | logical OR "fire fox" . Example:

| firefox will return documents containing the phrase fire fox or the word firefox

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