Google searching tricks | Google operators
Whenever you search in google it returns a list of thousands of websites which confuses us.So in this post i have included some google operators and tricks by which searching will be easier and fast.
| link: | Shows other pages that links to the specified website. For e.g link:google.com will show all websites that links to google.com |
| related: | Shows websites which have related content like the specified website. For e.g related related:youtube.com will show related sites to youtube. |
| site: | Lists all the indexed webpages of specified website. For e.g related site:techtips52.co.cc will show all webpages of techtips52.co.cc |
| inurl: | Searches for the keyword in the url of specified website. For e.g inurl:techtips |
| allinurl: | Same as inurl but restricts search to only specified keywords i.e extra keywords will not be searched. For e.g allinurl:techtips |
| intitle: | Searches for the keyword in the title of specified website. For e.g intitle:webmaster google finds only pages with webmaster in the title, and google anywhere on the page. |
| allintitle: | shows only results with keywords in title. For e.g allintitle:webmaster google |
| cache: | Shows the cached google version of specified webpage. For e.g cache:techtips52.co.cc |
| info: | 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. For e.g info:techtips52.co.cc |
| spell: | Works as a spell checker returns result with corrected words. For e.g spell:imagimation may result imagination. |
| stocks: | This will look up the search query in a stock index. For e.g stocks:msft will display the stock information for Microsoft. |
| filetype: | Searches for the specified file extension within the results. For e.g University papers filetype:pdf will search for pdf documents containing any university papers. |
| daterange: | Searches within specified date range the page is indexed.This is supported in Julian date format only. e.g daterange:2452384 2452384 is an example of a Julian date. |
| maps: | Just enter street address, a link to Yahoo Maps and to MapBlast will be presented. For e.g maps:vadodara |
| 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) For e.g phone:919234567890 |
| allintext: | searches only within text of pages, but not in the links or page title For e.g allintext:google webmaster |
| allinlinks: | searches only within links, not text or title. For e.g allinlinks:google webmaster |
| weather: | Type weather followed by a zip code or city and state to display current weather conditions and forecasts for upcoming days. For e.g weather:389001 vadodara |
| define: | Shows definition of keyword. For e.g define:computer will show computer definitions |
| Track airline flight | Enter the airline and flight number to display the status of an airline flight and it’s arrival time. For e.g Arabian airways 123 |
| Calculator | Google Search engine is also a calculator check by typing a math problem in the search. For e.g 10 + 20 * 3 would display results as 90. |
| time: | Shows current time of specified place. For e.g time:India |
| Synonyms | Google can also search for synonym(words having same meaning) Just include ~ Tilde before keyword. For e.g ~huge |
| Stop words | Google avoids words like I , and , then in search result To include them use the + plus operator. For e.g Land +and water |
| Wild card | * asterisk is called a wild card charecter which tells google to replace it by any word. For e.g Time * money will result in all searches starting with time and ending money |