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site : restricts results to sites within the specified domain
Sample
“site:vivsingh.com quotations” will find all pages containing the
word Quotations, located within the vivsingh.com domain
intitle : restricts results to documents whose title contains the specified phrase
Sample
“intitle:fox fire” will find all sites with the word fox in the
title and fire in the text
allintitle :restricts results to documents whose title contains all the specified phrases
“allintitle:fox fire” will find all sites with the words fox and fire in the title, so it’s equivalent to “intitle:fox
intitle:fire”
inurl : restricts results to sites whose URL contains the specified phrase
“inurl:fox fire” will find all sites containing the word fire in the text and fox in the URL
allinurl : restricts results to sites whose URL contains all the specified phrases
“allinurl:fox fire” will find all sites with the words fox and fire in the URL
filetype, ext : restricts results to documents of the specified type
“filetype:pdf fire” will return PDFs containing the word fire, while “filetype:xls” fox will return Excel spreadsheets with the word fox
Popular formats : txt, docs, ppt, zip, rar, info
link : restricts results to sites containing links to the specified location
“link:www.google.com” will return documents containing one or more links to www.google.com
+ : specifies that a phrase should occur frequently in results
“+fire ” will order results by the number of occurrences of the word fire
- : specifies that a phrase must not occur in results
“-fire” will return documents that don’t contain the word fire
“” : delimiters for entire search phrases (not single words)
“fire fox” will return documents containing the phrase fire fox
. wildcard for a single character
“fire.fox” will return documents containing the phrases fire fox, fireAfox, fire1fox, fire-fox etc.
* wildcard for a single word
“fire * fox” will return documents containing the phrases
fire the fox, fire in fox, fire or fox etc.
