Friday, January 7, 2011

Google Advance Search Operators



google searchGoogle is the most popular search engine, more than 80 percent of search queries are served by Google . The reason for its popularity is not only because of its fast and highly relevant search results, but also of its dozens of other search features and advance search operates, which i am sharing with you in this post.


Following are some advance Google search operators with sample queries.


Site This prefix will restrict the search results within the specified domain
Such as: site:onlytipsandtricks.com scripts
This query will search the word "script" within onlytipsandtricks.com.

Intitle This prefix will display the search results of documents or pages whose title contains the specified phrase
such as: intitle:tweaky script
This query will find all sites with the word "tweaky" in the
title and "script" the text.

Allintitle This prefix will display the results of documents whose title contains all the specified phrases
such as: allintitle:tweaky scripts
This query will find all sites with the words " tweaky" and "scripts" in the title.

Inurl This prefix will display the search results of sites whose URL contains the specified phrase
such as: inurl:tweaky scripts
This query will find all sites containing the word "tweaky" in the URL and "scripts" in the text.


Allinurl This prefix will display the search results of sites whose URL contains all the specified words or phrases.
such as: allinurl:facebook hasnain209

Filetype This prefix will display the search results of documents or files of the specified type.
such as: filetype:doc scripts
This query will return .doc file results containing the word "script".

Numrange This prefix will display the search results of documents containing a number from the specified range.
such as: numrange:1-100 tweaky
This query will return sites containing a number from 1 to 100 and the word "tweaky".

Allintext This prefix will display the search results of documents or pages containing the specified phrase in the text, but not in the title, link descriptions or URLs
such as: allintext:"tweaky scripts"
This query will return documents which contain the phrase “tweaky scripts” in their text only.


Cache This prefix highlights the search-words within the cached document
such as: "cache:onlytipsandtricks.com tweaky"
shows cached content with word "tweaky" highlighted.


Link The prefix "link:" will list webpages that have links to the specified webpage.
such as: "link:www.google.com"
This query will lists webpages linking to the Google homepage.



Related The prefix "related:" will list webpages that are "similar" to a specified web page.


Info The prefix "info:" will display some background information about one specified webpage
such as: info:www.google.com.
Typically, the info is the first text (160 bytes, about 23 words) contained in the page, displayed in the style of a results entry (for just the 1 page as matching the search).


+ specifies that a phrase should occur frequently in results
such as: +tips

-  specifies that a phrase must not occur in results
such as: tips -tricks
This query will return documents that contain the word “tips” but not the word “tricks”.

"" displays results for entire phrases not single words.
such as: "facebook quiz application without database"
This query will return documents containing the above phrase.

*
such as: tips * tricks
This query will return documents containing the phrases "tips and tricks", "tips & tricks", "tips - tricks" etc.

For more information see Google's help section.

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