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    Advanced Search Operators of Google.

    By Gunjan Pandya | December 2, 2007

    Hi friends, sorry for the delay post. Actually I was busy in my friend’s marriage. So today here I have posted the information on Google’s Advance Search Operators. Which are very helpful for getting particular information from Google.

    Basic Search Operators Examples

    Query : SEO Services

    You can find the pages containing the words SEO and Services

    OR Search

    Query : SEO OR SEM

    Exact Phrase Search

    You can find the pages containing information on SEO OR SEM

    Query : “I Love You”

    You can find the pages containing exact phrases of I Love You

    Query : British –library

    You can find the pages containing the word British but NOT the word library

    Synonym search

    Query : SEO ~glossary

    Through this command you can finds the pages containing glossaries about SEO, as well as dictionaries, lists of terms, terminology, etc.

    Query : data-entry

    Through this command you can find the pages containing all forms of the term, if spelled as a single word, a phrase or hyphenated.

    Query : define:popular

    Through this command you can find the different definition of the word popular

    Calculator Search Operators

    Basic Arithmatic

    Query : 15 + 30 - 32 * 2 / 4

    Percentage of

    Query : 22% of 40

    Raise to a Power

    For this you can use two types of search operators

    Query : 3**7

    OR 3^7

    Convert units

    Query : 1000 Euros in Pound

    Query : 160 lbs in kg

    Query : 48 in hex

    Restrict Search

    Flight Search

    City 1 City 2

    Query : Ahmedabad Singapore

    Through this command you can finds the result that contains book flights from Ahmedabad to Singapore. Here you can add any of two country or city for know the information about flight between that two cities.

    Domain search

    Site :

    Query : site:www.searchenginecity.org

    Through this command you can get the result of pages that crawled by the Google.

    “+” search

    Query : Star Wars Episode +I

    Through this command you can find the pages of Star Wars Episode I.

    Numrange search

    [#]..[#]

    Query : mobile $350..$600

    Through this command if you want to search within a range of numbers at that time this operator is useful for you. You can also use year and any numerical value to search within a range of numbers.

    Specific File Search

    Filetype: OR ext:

    Query : SEO Tutorial filetype:pdf

    Query : SEO Tutorial ext:pdf

    Through this command you can find the result of pages in particular file type.

    Backlinks Search

    Link:

    Query : link:www.searchenginecity.org

    Through this command you can find the linked pages (backlinks) of that particular site.

    Fill in the Blank “*” Search

    Query : insulin was invented by *

    Sometimes the best way to ask a question is to get Google to ‘fill in the blank’ for you. You can do this by adding an asterisk “*” in the part of the sentence or question that you want filled in.

    Specialized Information Queries

    Book OR books

    Query : book online marketing

    Through this command you can find the books related to online marketing. (Here no need to add colon(;) after book. )

    phonebook:

    Query : phonebook: McDonald’s WA

    Through this command you can find the result of phone numbers of McDonald’s in Washington.

    rphonebook:

    Query : rphonebook: Tushar Patel GA

    Through this command you can find the residential phone no of Tushar Patel, who is living in Georgia (GA)

    Movie:

    Query : movie: titanic

    Through this command you can find the information about Titanic Movie, with reviews, Showtime etc.

    Stocks:

    Query : stocks: goog

    Through this command you can find the current stock price of Google

    Weather:

    Query : weather: ahmedabad

    Through this command you can know the weather of any city.

    Alternative Search Operator

    Cache:

    Query : cache:www.searchenginecity.org

    Through this command you can find the Google’s cached version of a Search Engine City home page.

    Info: OR id:

    Query : Info:www.searchenginecity.org

    Through this command you can find the info about a Search Engine City

    Related:

    Query : related:www.searchenginecity.org

    Through this command you can find the list of web pages that are similar or related to the Search Engine City.

    SEO Related Search Operators

    Allinanchor:

    Query : allinanchor:buy Viagra

    Through this command you can find the pages that are called buy Viagra by others, means all query words must appear in anchor text of links to the page.

    Inachor:

    Query : seo services inanchor:freelancer

    Through this command you can find the pages on SEO Services for which links to the page say they are “freelancer”. Terms must appear in anchor text of links to the page.

    Allintext:

    Query : allintext:services seo sem

    Through this command you can find the pages for services with SEO and SEM keywords. All query words must appear the in text of the page.

    Intext:

    Query : matt cutts intext:google

    Through this command you can find the pages mentioning Matt Cutts where, Google is included in the text of the page.

    Allintitle:

    Query : allintitle:seo services

    Through this command you can find the pages with titles containing “SEO” and “Services” keywords. All keywords must appear in the title of the page.

    Intitle:

    Query : Social Bookmarking intitle:top ten

    Through this command you can find the pages with the words Social and Bookmarking that inclue top ten in the title of the page.

    Allinurl:

    Query: allinurl:seo services

    Through this command you can find the pages containing the words SEO and Services in the URL. All keywords must appear in the URL.

    Inurl:

    Query : seo inurl:blog

    Through this command you can find the pages in which the URL contains the word blog. The term must appear in the URL of the page.

    Search Operators of Google Groups

    Author:

    Query: Search Engine author:Will Spencer

    In Google Groups through this command you can search the articles on Search Engine, which are written by Will Spencer

    Group:

    Query : Search Engine group:alt.internet.search-engines

    Through this command you can find the group messages of Search Engine from the alt.internet.search-engines group.

    Insubject:

    Query : insubject:seo

    Through this command you can find the articles containing SEO in the subject line.

    Search Operators of Google News

    Location:

    Query : SEO location:india

    Through this command you can find the SEO news from India.

    Source:

    Query : source:informationweek

    Through this command you can find the articles from the site Information Week

    Search Operators of Froogle

    Store:

    Query : shoes store:reebok

    In Froogle through this command you can find the shoes from the Reebok Store.

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    Topics: Google, Google Searching |

    2 Responses to “Advanced Search Operators of Google.”

    1. seo Says:
      December 3rd, 2007 at 2:23 pm

      I just wanted to thank you for all the informations .

    2. xrystal Says:
      December 15th, 2007 at 3:28 am

      Thank you so much! I needed this.

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