As you may be aware, Google is a program, also known as an algorithm. It is optimized for use by regular users who type in certain words in order to find the things they want. After trying a few search words and phrases you may come to a junction where you cannot find the information that you want. If this happens to you then you can try talking to the search engine in a language that is a little closer to its “machine” code. You can do this by using the operators listed in this article.
Some people use operators such as these for devious means, such as finding sensitive information. One of the most commonly used techniques is:
intitle: “curriculum vitae” “phone” “address” “e-mail”
However, it is so overused, that if you were to copy and paste that example phrase into Google, you would find lots of website on how to hack, and why you shouldn’t hack.
Site
This restricts results to pages located within a specific field/domain.
Example
Picture site:techtricksworld.com
This example will find all the pages within the site that have the word “Picture” or “Pictures” in them.
intitle
Restricts results to documents containing a given phrase within the title
Example
intitle: postage fees
This find the words “postage fees” within the title of any searched documents.
allintitle
Restricts results to documents containing all the words searched for in the title.
Example
allintitle: grape trees
This will find all pages containing the both the words “grape” and “tree”.
Inurl
Restricts results to pages containing a given phrase within the URL.
Example
inurl: Apple sandwich
This will find the websites that have the word(s) “Apple” and/or “Sandwich” in.
Allinurl
Restricts results to pages containing all the sentences given in the URL.
Example
allinurl: broken window crack
This will find pages containing the words “broken”, “window” and “crack”. The order of the words may change, but each must be within the URL.
filetype:. ext
This limits the results to a given document type.
Example
filetype: OpenUniversityPaper.pdf
This will find any documents that are called “OpenUniversityPaper”, but you can also use it to search for singular keywords within a file’s title.
numrange
This restricts results to documents containing text in their number of specified page.
Example
numrange :1-100 ghost
This will find the pages in a document containing the word ghost between the first and hundredth. The same result can be obtained by typing “1 .. 100 ghost” (without the quotation marks).
Link
Restricts results to pages containing links to a given page.
Example
link: www.Google.co.uk
This will retrieve documents containing at least one link to the page www.google.co.uk.
unanchored
Restricts results to pages containing a link that has certain words in it.
Example
inanchore: rope
This allows you to find documents containing the word “Rope” within a links description (which is also known as the anchor text. It does not search out keywords within the link‘s URL.
allintext
Restricts results to documents containing text in a given sentence regardless of title, links and urls.
Example
allintext: “maple”
It will find documents containing the phrase “maple” only in the text.
+
This symbol imposes a frequent presence in the sentence given in the results. If you want the search engine to favor a certain word above all others then use this symbol.
Example
+ carrot
Example
Apple, cheese, +carrot, rice
In both examples the word carrot would be given priority over all other keywords, however the search would not be exclusive. You may still find results that do not have the word “carrot” in.
–
This will remove the chosen keyword from the results. It cannot be used correctly on its own, it needs to be with other keywords.
Example
Dog, bitch, -puppy
In this example you would receive lots of websites related to dogs, but the word “puppy” would not appear in the search engine results.
“”
Allows you to search all the sentences that are indexed, and not just words that are in the meta description, title, url, etc. It will exclusively search for web pages with those specific words in, and will provide you with less synonym alternatives.
Example
“spellcheck software”
The search engine would find all web pages and all indexed documents containing the phrase “spellcheck software”.
.
This will search for words within the same sentence that are separated by other words.
Example
Happy.park
It will find web pages and documents that have the words “Happy” and “Park” in the same sentence, with either one appearing first. For example, “My dog was happy in the park”, or “If I get to park my car then I will be happy”.
|
This is known as the logical OR function, which is known by many programmers as a set, “And, if, and if, unless, or”.
Example
Broken rim| damaged tire
Here is would search out pages that either have the phrase “Broken rim” or “Damaged tire”. However it would not show you pages that contain both key phrases.
It’s really very useful tools when you want to quickly find the information you need.
From my experience
There is a valuable tool that will allow you to construct your query and make it the most targeted. I recently discovered it and since then I use it both for work and for personal purposes. It is called Advangle (advanced Google). It is simple and convenient builder of complex web-search queries. With a help of Advangle you can build queries with multiple parameters (“language”, ”domain”, ”Page text”, etc.) and see Google or Bing SERP for your query. Why is it convenient? First of all, Advangle is easy to use. Second plus is that you can save your results and use them later. Any condition can be disabled without removing so you can try several combinations and choose the most suitable for you. It’s very useful tool for bloggers, guest bloggers, seo specialists and ordinary search engine users. Enjoy!
Author bio:
_____________________________________________________
Korah Morrison, writer essay writing services that help students to write essays of any complexity.
_____________________________________________________
This is truly a nice share buddy … Most of the times I use the “link” operator to get my work done.
Oh great n useful post here in TTW! it is really nice.
The information shared now is good and hope it is useful for the people to learn “how to search effectively”
I knew few already and gonna try the missed ways to search.
Thanks for sharing the informative post!
Hi Atish,
Great Post.
All what you explained in this article is quite new to me and I am glad to have read it. Thanks so much for all the information you share.
Be Blessed,
Neamat
Thanks Neamat for stopping by. Google search operators are very nice.
A very interesting post, Atish and Korah – I’ve heard of some of these operators before, but I can never remember them!
Thanks for letting us know about Advangle – I will almost certainly give that a try,
Sue
Thanks Sue. Glad you liked it. 🙂 Keep coming! 🙂
these search terms are called Google dorks in the language of penetration testers. Nice post
Thanks Abhishek for the add up.
Google is Algorithm technique or contains the large meta data .find out the meta data with domain name such edu.ac.etc.
similar find out country name like .in ,.uk .etc.and world wide com.so we can say that google is program which find out the documentation based in particular keywords
Great!
As a guest blogger, I also use “anchor” + “link” in Advangle to sort links
Hi Atish Bro!
Great Share!
Thanks for this Google Search Operator Commands 🙂
Mosam
Hi Atish,
In my opinion, Google Search Operator cammand is one of the best operator cammand from others. Mostly time I use it. and i will discuss with my friends. Well thanks dear to telling me about this command. Actually i want to know commands. If you have any more commands so please share with us.
Hello Atish!!
These tags that you have provided are just great. I have used the “inurl” and “intitle” tag in searching commands in Google. And yes, it really works. Thanks for the share!! I am sure other tags will also work at the same time. Thanks for the share!!
Google is my preferred search engine and thanks to you, now I can use them more efficiently.
Hi Atish and Korah!
Nice article. All of this operators is very usefull for people who working or searching something in the internet. You can also use operator ‘site’ If you want to check whether the page is indexed by web crowlrer. For example you create new page on your own website and want to check-in: site: http://www.sitename.com/your-page-url. Ofcourse you can use any online services or PC software. But this way really working.
Thanks!
Thank you all!
Here you can ffind all GSO
Google Guide
Hi
That’s a really useful list, thanks.
I knew that some of these existed – but not most of them. However I could never remember them.
Advangle looks interesting too.
Joy
Excellent post about Google. this is new information about Google search operator commands it’s very nice and i like it.
Thanks for sharing
Hi Atish,
Great Article. in my opinion All of this operators is very usefull for people who working. we can also use operator ‘site’ If you want to check so you can get indexed by web crowlrer. and now I can use them more efficiently.Well thanks bro for sharing with us.
These are like Google short cuts for searching. very good share indeed!
All of this operators is very useful for people I am totally agree with you and your post it’s very nice and true
Thanks for Sharing
Hi Atish,
great list of useful Google search commands.
I believe that many internet marketers do not know even half of these.
But they may really help you out along your blogging journey.
Thanks for sharing,
have a great week!
Thanks for stopping by Erik. Glad you loved the post. You too have a great week.