Prefix Tricks Or Query Options In Google Search That You Probably Didn’t Knew
Most of us knew handful of prefixes that can be used in Google for specific purpose like link:, related: or site:. However there are much more whose utility can vary amongst general users to webmasters.
- link:www.site.com – Shows other pages that links to that url.
- related:www. site.com – find sites that Google considers related.
- site:www.site.com – restrict search the pages of a specified site.
- allinurl: shows only pages with all terms in the url.
- inurl: like allinurl, but only for the next query word.
- allintitle: shows only results with terms in title.
- intitle: same as allintitle, but only for the next word.
- intitle:search google finds only pages with search in the title, and google anywhere on the page.
- cache:url gives you google’s recorded version of webpage.
- info:url will give you description about a given site. This is same as typing url in search box.
- spell: does a spellcheck on your querry. you don’t have to do this, google will automatically spellcheck any words searched.
- stocks: does a search for stocks quotes of a company. For example stocks:GOOG .
- filetype: does a search for a specific file type. For example filetype:doc will search for Microsoft word files along with search querry.
- daterange: is supported in Julian date format only. 2452384 is an example of a Julian date. For example Star Wars daterange:2452122-2452234 .
- maps: shortcut to do a google maps search.
- phone: searches for anything that looks like a phonenumber.
- allinlinks: searches only within links, not text or title.
- allintext: searches only within text of pages, but not in the links or page title
- allinanchor:keyword – list results ordered by number of anchor texts as keyword
For example allinanchor:love. Note the difference in http://www.google.com/search?q=allinanchor%3Alove and http://www.google.com/search?q=love
If you are more interested in tweaking search parameters, implementing automatic filtering and restrictions in AJAX API then you must check out Google SOAP Search.
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I had read about all other operators just except phone: and spell: – of course, spell is not at all useful as google itself suggest the right one.
Stumbled
Thanks for the tips!
Another great Google trick. Define: Will search for meanings of a word, acronym, phrase, etc
Yet another one… Weather in {name of town/city} will give you current temp. and 4 day forecast
Thanks Steve for the tip.