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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.
Topics: Google, Google Searching |
December 3rd, 2007 at 2:23 pm
I just wanted to thank you for all the informations .
December 15th, 2007 at 3:28 am
Thank you so much! I needed this.