Here I will show you how to use Google to get the results you exactly searched for.There are some common search operators we use. But there are so many other search operators that we can use to make our search more productive.
Basic Operators
(~) search synonym:
Example: ~car
Return the results about car as well as car parts, engines and repairing cars etc.
( . ) a single-character wildcard:
Example: s.x
Just search to get the results
( * ) any word wildcard.
Advanced Operators: “Site:”
Site: Domain name
Find Web pages only on the specified domain. If we search a specific site, usually we get the Web structure of the domain.
eg: site:edu
Filetype:
Filetype: extension_type
Find documents with specified extensions
The supported extensions are:
- HyperText Markup Language (html) - Microsoft PowerPoint (ppt)
- Adobe Portable Document Format (pdf) - Microsoft Word (doc)
- Adobe PostScript (ps) - Microsoft Works (wks, wps, wdb)
- Lotus 1-2-3 - Microsoft Excel (xls)
(wk1, wk2, wk3, wk4, wk5, wki, wks, wku) - Microsoft Write (wri)
- Lotus WordPro (lwp) - Rich Text Format (rtf)
- MacWrite (mw) - Shockwave Flash (swf)
Intitle:
Intitle: search_term
Find search term within the title of a Webpage
Allintitle: search_term1 search_term2 search_term3
Find multiple search terms in the Web pages with the title that includes all these words
These operators are specifically useful to find the directory lists.
eg:Intitle: Index.of “parent directory”
Inurl:
Inurl: search_term
Find search term in a Web address
Allinurl: search_term1 search_term2 search_term3
Find multiple search terms in a Web address
Examples:
Inurl: cgi-bin
Allinurl: cgi-bin password
Intext:
Intext: search_term
Find search term in the text body of a document.
Allintext: search_term1 search_term2 search_term3
Find multiple search terms in the text body of a document.
Examples:
Intext: Administrator login
Allintext: Administrator login
Cache:
Cache: URL
Find the old version of Website in Google cache
Sometimes, even the site has already been updated, the old information might be found in cache
Examples:
Cache: www.google.com
Number range search:
<number1>..<number2>
Conduct a number range search by specifying two numbers, separated by two periods, with no spaces. Be sure to specify a unit of measure or some other indicator of what the number range represents. It is useful in searching and comparing prices.
Example:
Books $200..500
Link:
Link: URL
Find the Web pages having a link to the specified URL
Related: URL
Find the Web pages that are “similar” to the specified Web page
info: URL
Present some information that Google has about that Web page
Define: search term
Provide a definition of the words gathered from various online sources.
phonebook:
Phonebook
Search the entire Google phonebook
rphonebook
Search residential listings only
bphonebook
Search business listings only.
They are some other search terms also.Hope this will improve your search results!
