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GOOGLE GUIDE Quick Reference: Google Advanced Operators (Cheat Sheet)

by Nancy Blachman – nancy at googleguide.com (replace at with @)

BASIC EXAMPLES FINDS PAGES CONTAINING...

holiday travel the words holiday and travel
Bermuda OR Greece either the word Bermuda or the word Greece
"I have a dream" the exact phrase I have a dream
salsa –dance the word salsa but NOT the word dance
Star Wars Episode +I this movie title, including the roman numeral I
Google ~Guide Google info for both the word guide and its synonyms: help, tutorial, tips, etc.
define:phishing definitions of the word phishing from the Web

CALCULATOR MEANING TYPE INTO SEARCH BOX

+–*/ basic arithmetic 12 + 34 - 56 * 7 / 8
% of percentage of 45% of 39
^ or ** raise to a power 2^5 or 2**5
old units in new units convert units 300 Euros in USD, 130 lbs in kg, or 31 in hex
WHAT TO TYPE INTO SEARCH BOX
RESTRICT SEARCH MEANING
(& DESCRIPTION OF RESULTS)
Search only one admission site:www.lse.ac.uk, admission site:edu
site:
website or domain. (Search for admisions info at LSE's website & in the edu domain.)
Search within a range DVD player $100..150
[#]..[#]
of numbers. (Search for DVD players between $100 and $150.)
filetype: Find documents of the Google Reference filetype:pdf
(or ext:) specified type. (Find Google references in pdf format.)
Find linked pages, i.e.,
link:www.googleguide.com
link: show pages that point
(Find pages that link to Google Guide's website.)
to the URL.
safesearch: sex education
safesearch: Exclude adult-content.
(Search for sex education material without returning adult sites.)

SPECIALIZED INFORMATION QUERIES

book Alice in Wonderland
book Search full-text of
(Show book-related information.
(or books) books.
Note: No colon needed after book.)
define blog, what is ram
define, what is, Show a definition for a
(Show a definition for the words blog and ram.
what are word or phrase.
Note: No colon after define, what is, or what are.)
Provide definitions for
words, phrases, and define:callipygian
define:
acronyms from the (Find web pages containing definitions for callipygian.)
Web.
Show all phonebook phonebook: Disney CA
phonebook:
listings. (Search for Disney's phone numbers.)
Show business bphonebook: Hearst Castle San Simeon CA
bphonebook:
phonebook listings. (Search for the Hearst Castle phone numbers.)
Show residential rphonebook: Monty Python Oakland CA
rphonebook:
phonebook listings. (Search for the phone number of Monty Python.)
Find reviews and movie: The Wizard of Oz
movie:
showtimes. (Search for information about this movie.)
Given ticker symbols, stocks: goog
stocks:
show stock information (Find Google's current stock price.)
Given a location (zip weather Mountain View CA
weather code or city), show the (Show the current weather and forecast.
weather Note: No colon after weather.)
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ALTERNATIVE QUERY TYPES

Display Google's
cache:www.minezone.org
cache: cached version of a
(Show Google's cached version of MineZone.org's home page.)
web page.
info: info:www.googleguide.com
Find info about a page.
(or id:) (Find information about the Google Guide website.)
List web pages that are
related:www.googleguide.com
related: similar or related to the
(Find websites related to the Google Guide website.)
URL.
RESTRICT SEARCH TO SITES WHERE QUERY WORDS APPEAR
All query words must allinanchor: S-and-S Coupling
allinanchor: appear in anchor text of (Search for pages in which the anchor text contains "S-and-S
links to the page. coupling".)
Terms must appear in restaurants inanchor:gourmet
inanchor: anchor text of links to (Search for pages on restaurants for which links to the page
the page. mention the word "gourmet".)
All query words must allintext: travel packing list
allintext: appear the in text of the (Search for pages in which "travel," "packing," & "list" appear in the
page. text of the page.)
The terms must appear Hamish Reid intext:pandemonia
intext: in (Find pages on Hamish Reid where his company Pandemonia is
the text of the page. included in the text of the page.)
All query words must allintitle: Google Advanced Operators
allintitle: appear in the title of the (Search for pages with titles containing "Google," "Advanced,", and
page. "Operators".)
flu shot intitle:help
The terms must appear
intitle: (Search for pages with the words "flu" and "shot" that include "help"
in the title of the page.
in the title of the page.)
allinurl: google faq
All query words must
allinurl: (Search for pages containing the words "google" & "faq" in the
appear in the URL.
URL.)
inurl:print site:www.googleguide.com
The terms must appear
inurl: (Search for pages on Google Guide in which the URL contains the
in the URL of the page.
word "print.")

RESTRICT SEARCH TO GOOGLE GROUPS

Find Groups messages
flying author:Hamish author:Reid
author: from the specified
(Search for Hamish Reid's articles on flying.)
author.
Find Groups messages
sleep groups:misc.kids.moderated
group: from the specified
(Search for articles on sleep in the group misc.kids.moderated.")
newsgroup.
Find Groups messages
insubject:"falling asleep"
insubject: containing the terms in
(Find articles containing "falling asleep" in the subject line.)
the subject.

RESTRICT SEARCH TO GOOGLE NEWS

Find News articles from
queen location:uk
location: sources located in the
(Find British news articles on the Queen.)
specified location.
Find News articles from peace source:ha_aretz
source:
specified sources. (Show articles on peace from the Israeli newspaper Ha'aretz.)

RESTRICT SEARCH TO FROOGLE

Find Froogle products
sun hats store:llbean
store: from the specified
(Find L.L. Bean sun hats.)
store.
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