| OPERATOR EXAMPLE | FINDS PAGES CONTAINING... | |||
| vacation cuba | the words vacation and Cuba | |||
| Chicago OR Hawaii | either the word Chicago or the word Hawaii | |||
| "make me happy" | the exact phrase make me happy | |||
| virus -computer | the word virus but NOT the word computer | |||
| Star Wars Episode +I | This movie title, including the roman numeral I | |||
| ~auto loan | loan info for both the word auto and its synonyms: truck, car, etc. | |||
| define:computer | definitions of the word computer from around the Web | |||
| green * blue | the words green and blue separated by one or more words | |||
| ADVANCED OPERATORS | MEANING | WHAT TO TYPE INTO SEARCH BOX (DESCRIPTION OF RESULTS) | ||
| site: | Search only one website | admission site:www.stanford.edu (Search Stanford Univ. site for admissions info.) |
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| [#]…[#] | Search within a range of numbers |
used car $1000..1500 (Search for used cars between $1000 and $1500) |
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| safesearch: | Exclude adult-content | safesearch: sexual education (Search for sexual education material without returning adult sites) |
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| link: | Linked pages | link:www.stanford.edu (Find pages that link to the Stanford University website.) |
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| info: | Info about a page | info:www.stanford.edu (Find information about the Stanford University website.) |
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| related: | Related pages | related:www.stanford.edu (Find websites related to the Stanford University website.) |
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| filetype: | Specific file type | Insurance filetype:pdf (Search for Insurance in pdf documents.) |
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| cache: | Cached documents | cache:www.google.com web (Display cached version of Google website and highlight word web.) |
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| allintitle: | Search in documents containing all words in title | allintitle: google search (Return only documents that have both "google" and "search" in the title.) |
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| intitle: | Search in documents containing that word in title | intitle: google search (Return only documents that have word "google" in the title and contain word "search".) |
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| allinurl: | Search in documents containing all words in URL | allinurl: google search (Return only documents that have both "google" and "search" in the url.) |
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| inurl: | Search in documents containing that word in URL | inurl:google inurl:search (Return only documents that have word "google" in the url and contain word "search".) |
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