Finding stuff on the 'net can be made a whole lot easier if you know the a few handy search operators.
| "<word 1> <word 2>" |
Performs a search for the phrase "word 1 word 2". Not including the parentheses will search for word 1 and word 2 somewhere in the page, but not necessarily together (the typical search). |
| <word 1> OR <word 2> |
Will search for occurrences of word 1 or word 2 but not both. |
| -<word> |
Excludes a particular word.
E.G. money -poor |
| ~<word> |
Performs a synonym search. E.G. ~auto loans will search for truck loans, car loans, etc. |
| <#1>…<#2> |
Finds in a range. E.G. laptop cost $1000…$15000 seaches for laptops that cost between $1000 and $1500 dollars. |
| inurl:<text> |
Returns only pages with a url (address) containing text. |
| intitle:<text> |
Returns only pages where the title element contains text. |
| site:<url> |
Only search the site specified by url for the keywords supplied.
E.G. funny site:www.turrbalterror.com |
| define:<word> |
Finds the definition of word. Basically turns Google into a dictionary. |
| filetype:<ext> |
Returns results that meet the supplied file type extension.
E.G. money filetype:pdf will return all PDF documents containing the word "money". This one is great for searching source code :) |
| info:<url> |
Returns information about the supplied url (address) |
