Cheatsheet
Search Filters
allintext
Searches for occurrences of all the keywords given.
allintext:"keyword"
intext
Searches for the occurrences of keywords all at once or one at a time.
intext:"keyword"
inurl
Searches for a URL matching one of the keywords.
inurl:"keyword"
allinurl
Searches for a URL matching all the keywords in the query.
allinurl:"keyword"
intitle
Searches for occurrences of keywords in title all or one.
intitle:"keyword"
allintitle
Searches for occurrences of keywords all at a time.
allintitle:"keyword"
site
Specifically searches that particular site and lists all the results for that site.
filetype
Searches for a particular filetype mentioned in the query.
filetype:"pdf"
link
Searches for external links to pages.
link:"keyword"
numrange
Used to locate specific numbers in your searches.
numrange:321-325
before/after
Used to search within a particular date range.
filetype:pdf & (before:2000-01-01 after:2001-01-01)
allinanchor (and also inanchor)
This shows sites which have the keyterms in links pointing to them, in order of the most links.
inanchor:rat
allinpostauthor (and also inpostauthor)
Exclusive to blog search, this one picks out blog posts that are written by specific individuals.
allinpostauthor:"keyword"
related
List web pages that are “similar” to a specified web page.
related:www.google.com
cache
Shows the version of the web page that Google has in its cache.
cache:www.google.com
Operators
Search Term
This operator searches for the exact phrase within speech marks only. This is ideal when the phrase you are using to search is ambiguous and could be easily confused with something else, or when you’re not quite getting relevant enough results back. For example:
OR
This self explanatory operator searches for a given search term OR an equivalent term.
AND
Operators combinaison
Include results
This will order results by the number of occurrence of the keyword.
Exclude results
Synonyms
Adding a tilde to a search word tells Google that you want it to bring back synonyms for the term as well. For example, entering “~set” will bring back results that include words like “configure”, “collection” and “change” which are all synonyms of “set”. Fun fact: “set” has the most definitions of any word in the dictionary.
Glob pattern (*)
Putting an asterisk in a search tells Google ‘I don’t know what goes here’. Basically, it’s really good for finding half remembered song lyrics or names of things.
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