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Google Search Operators

There is great power here. I know most of you are not taking advantage of these operators. 1. + (plus) - this will yield search results ordered by the number of occurrences of the specified word 2. - (dash) - this will yield search results that do not contain the specified word 3. " " (double quotes) - this will yield search results containing the exact word specified 4. . (dot) - is a wildcard representing a single character 5. * (asterisk) - is a wildcard representing a single word 6. | - traditional OR operator 7. site: - search within a specified domain 8. intitle: - this will search for the 1st specified word in page titles and the 2nd specified word in the text 9. allintitle: - this will search for texts in page titles only 10. inurl: - this will search for URLs containing the specified word 11. allinurl: - this will search for texts in URLs only 12. filetype: - this will search for texts containing files of the specified extension and the specified word 1...

Gmail Search Operators

These operators will give you more precise search results. 1. from: - mails from the name of the sender 2. to: - mails sent/to be sent to to the recipient 3. subject: - search mails containing the specified words in the subject 4. OR - traditional OR operator 5. - (dash or hyphen) - exclude messages containing the specified words 6. label: - search messages by label 7. has:attachment - search mails with attachments 8. filename: - search mails by filename of the attachments 9. " " (double quotes) - traditional operator for filtering exact specified words 10. () - used for grouping search expressions 11. in:anywhere - search for mails anywhere in your account 12. in:inbox - search for mails in your inbox 13. in:trash - search for mails in your trash folder 14. in:spam - search for mails in your spam folder 15. is:starred - search for starred mails 16. is:unread - search for unread mails 17. is:read - search for read mails 18. cc: - search mails that were ca...