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.