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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
13. ext: - this will search for texts containing files of the specified extension and the specified word
14. numrange - used for searching number sequences
15. link: - this will search for pages containing the specified link
16. inanchor: - this will yield search results that contain the actual link text specified
17. allintext: - this will search for the exact text specified
18. info: - this will search for links and information about the specified website
19. cache: - this will display a copy of the page stored by Google
20. movie: - this will yield search results about the movie specified
21. stocks: - display the current stock of the specified symbol
22. define: - instant dictionary

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