Advanced Search Tips For Google

- 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
- related: – find sites google deems related to any given site
- site: – search the pages of a specific 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: 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.
- cache: gives you googles cashed (what google has on record) of a site
- info: will give you some info about a given site
- spell: – does a spellcheck (you don’t have to do this, google will spellcheck any words searched)
- stocks: does a search for stocks
- 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
- daterange: is supported in Julian date format only. 2452384 is an example of a Julian date.
- 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
For example, if you want to get a pdf file from www.sun.com, you can search as follows.
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Thanks for the tips!