Google Search Techniques

Google Search Techniques


Link: url Shows other pages with links to that url

Related:url same as "what's related" on serps.

Site: domain restricts search results to the given domain.

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: similar to allintitle, but only for the next word.

"intitle:webmasterworld google" finds only pages with Webmasterworld in the title, and google anywhere on the page

Cache:url will show the Google version of the passed url.

Info:url will show a page containing links to related searches, backlinks, and pages containing the url. This is the same as typing the url into the search box.

Spell: will spell check your query and search for it.

Stocks: will lookup the search query in a stock index.

Filetype: will restrict searches to that filetype. "-filetype:doc" to remove Microsoft word files.

Daterange: is supported in Julian date format only. 2452384 is an example of a Julian date.

Maps: If you enter a street address, a link to Yahoo Maps and to MapBlast will be presented.

Phone: enter anything that looks like a phone number to have a name and address displayed. Same is true for Something that looks like an address (include a name and zip code)

Site:www.somesite.net "+www.somesite.+net"(tells you how many pages of your site are indexed by google)

Allintext: searches only within text of pages, but not in the links or page title

Allinlinks: searches only within links, not text or title