Some useful google hacks or searching tips to make the search more efficient. Try em!!Operator Description Sample query
Legend of the table below:
S.No. "Command" what is does.
Example
1. site restricts results to sites within the
specified domain
site:google.com fox will find all sites containing the
word fox, located within the *.google.com domain
2. intitle restricts results to documents whose
title contains the specified phrase
intitle:fox fire will find all sites with the word fox in the
title and fire in the text
3. allintitle restricts results to documents
whose title contains all the specified
phrases
allintitle:fox fire will find all sites with the words fox
and fire in the title, so it's equivalent to intitle:fox
intitle:fire
4. inurl restricts results to sites whose URL
contains the specified phrase
inurl:fox fire will find all sites containing the word fire
in the text and fox in the URL
5. allinurl restricts results to sites whose URL
contains all the specified phrases
allinurl:fox fire will find all sites with the words fox
and fire in the URL, so it's equivalent to inurl:fox
inurl:fire
6. filetype, ext restricts results to documents of the
specified type
filetype:pdf fire will return PDFs containing the word
fire, while filetype:xls fox will return Excel spreadsheets
with the word fox
7. numrange restricts results to documents containing
a number from the specified
range
numrange:1-100 fire will return sites containing a number
from 1 to 100 and the word fire. The same result can be
achieved with 1..100 fire
8. link restricts results to sites containing
links to the specified location
link:www.google.com will return documents containing
one or more links to www.google.com
9. inanchor restricts results to sites containing
links with the specified phrase in
their descriptions
inanchor:fire will return documents with links whose
description contains the word fire (that's the actual link
text, not the URL indicated by the link)
10. allintext restricts results to documents containing
the specified phrase in the
text, but not in the title, link descriptions
or URLs
allintext:"fire fox" will return documents which contain
the phrase fire fox in their text only
11. + specifies that a phrase should occur
frequently in results
+fire will order results by the number of occurrences of
the word fire
12. - specifies that a phrase must not occur
in results
-fire will return documents that don't contain the word
fire
13. "" delimiters for entire search phrases
(not single words)
"fire fox" will return documents containing the phrase
fire fox
14. . wildcard for a single character fire.fox will return documents containing the phrases
fire fox, fireAfox, fire1fox, fire-fox etc.
15. * wildcard for a single word fire
* fox will return documents containing the phrases
fire the fox, fire in fox, fire or fox etc.
16. logical OR "fire fox"
firefox will return documents containing the
phrase fire fox or the word firefox
