Advanced Search Tips For Google

  1. link: – Show’s you some/most of the links google counts to your page. Handy to find out who is linking to you, or whose linking to the competition
  2. related: – find sites google deems related to any given site
  3. site: – search the pages of a specific site
  4. allinurl: shows only pages with all terms in the url
  5. inurl: like allinurl, but only for the next query word.
  6. allintitle: shows only results with terms in title.
  7. intitle: kind of like allintitle, but only for the next word. “intitle:webmasterworld google” finds only pages with webmasterworld in the title, and google anywhere on the page.
  8. cache: gives you googles cashed (what google has on record) of a site
  9. info: will give you some info about a given site
  10. spell: – does a spellcheck (you don’t have to do this, google will spellcheck any words searched)
  11. stocks: does a search for stocks
  12. filetype: does a search for a specific file type, or, if you put a – in front of it, it won’t list any results with that filetype
  13. daterange: is supported in Julian date format only. 2452384 is an example of a Julian date.
  14. maps: shortcut to do a google maps search
  15. phone: searches for anything that looks like a phonenumber
  16. allinlinks: searches only within links, not text or title
  17. allintext: searches only within text of pages, but not in the links or page title

For example, if you want to get a pdf file from www.sun.com, you can search as follows.

Java site:www.sun.com filetype:pdf


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  1. October 4th, 2009 at 03:51 | #1

    Thanks for the tips!

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