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Saturday, October 6, 2007

Chapter 2 Google Search made easy

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


1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Nice Tricks yaar... Keep it going!