Current Magazine

Google Search : Tips, Tricks and Ideas

Posted on the 19 October 2010 by Ajvats @branderful

Google has made it possible to reach not just publicly available Internet resources, but also to some that should never have been revealed.We are fortunate to be living  in the era of Internet + Google where information has been commoditized to great extend, now what we really need to do is just type a query in Google and most of the time you would get what you are looking for.Table below shows some queries which can be useful in your search:-

OperatorDescriptionSample query

siteonly results to sites within the given domainsite:google.com International will find all sites/Pages containing the word International, located within the google.com domain

intitleonly results to documents whose title contains the given
keywordintitle:Travel will find all sites with the word Travel in the title

allintitleonly results to documentswhose title contains all the given keywordallintitle:International Travel will find all sites with the words Internationaland Travel in the title, so it's equivalent to intitle:International intitle:Travel

inurlonly results to sites whose URL contains the given keywordinurl:International Travel will find all sites containing the word Travel in the text and International in the URL

allinurlonly results to sites whose URL contains all the given keywordallinurl:International Travel will find all sites with the words Internationaland Travel in the URL, so it's equivalent to inurl:International inurl:Travel

filetype, extonly results to documents of the given typefiletype:pdf Travel will return PDFs containing the word Travel, while filetype:xls International will return Excel spreadsheets with the word International

numrangeonly results to documents containing a number from the given rangenumrange:1-100 Travel will return sites containing a number from 1 to 100 and the word Travel. The same result can be achieved with 1..100 Travel

linkonly results to sites containing links to the given locationlink:www.google.com will return documents containing one or more links to www.google.com

inanchoronly results to sites containing links with the given keyword in their descriptionsinanchor:Travel will return documents with links whose description contains the word Travel (that's the actual link text, not the URL indicated by the link)

allintextonly results to documents containing the given keyword in the text, but not in the title, link descriptions or URLsonly results to documents containingthe given keyword in the text, but not in the title, link descriptions or URLs

+specifies that a keyword should occur frequently in results+Travel will order results by the number of occurrences of the word Travel

-specifies that a keyword must not occur in results-Travel will return documents that don't contain the word Travel

" "delimiters for entire search keyword (not single words)"International Travel" will return documents containing the keyword International Travel


My advice looking for something "Just Google it"



Back to Featured Articles on Logo Paperblog

Magazine