Google tweaks Part II
site: allows you to narrow your search by either a site or a top-level domain. AltaVista, for example, has two syntaxes for this function (host: and domain:), but Google has only the one. site:loc.gov site:thomas.loc.gov site:edu site:nc.us link:returns a list of pages linking to the specified URL. Enter link:www.google.com and you’ll be returned a list of pages that link to Google. Don’t worry about including the http:// bit; you don’t need it, and, indeed, Google appears to ignore it even if you do put it in. link: works just as well with “deep” URLs—http://www.raelity.org/apps/blosxom/ for instance—as with top-level URLs such [...]
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Google search tweaks
The Special Syntaxes In addition to the basic AND, OR, and quoted strings, Google offers some rather extensive special syntaxes for honing your searches. intitle: restricts your search to the titles of web pages. The variation, allintitle: finds pages wherein all the words specified make up the title of the web page. It’s probably best to avoid the allintitle: variation, because it doesn’t mix well with some of the other syntaxes. intitle:”george bush” allintitle:”money supply” economics inurl: restricts your search to the URLs of web pages. This syntax tends to work well for finding search and help pages, because they [...]
Categories: Concept Tags: advance google search, Google Hacks, google search operators, google search tricks
