As well as searching Google for webpages, documents and images, you can also use its advanced query types to mine its database and get more advanced information.

cache:                  

Include other words in the query and Google will highlight those words within the cached document. For instance, [cache:www.google.com ibm] will show the cached content with the word “ibm” highlighted.

You can also find this by clicking on the “Cached” link on the main results page.

The cache: query shows the version of the webpage that Google has in its cache. For instance, [cache:www.wordtipsandtricks.com] will show Google’s cache of this page.

Note: make sure there is no space between the “cache:” and the web page url.

link:                       

Use link: to list webpages that link to the specified webpage. For instance, [link:www. Wordtipsandtricks.com] will list webpages that have links pointing to wordtipsandtricks.com.

You can also find this in the Advanced Search page, under Page Specific Search > Links.

related:                               

Use related: to list web pages that are “similar” to a specified web page.

You can also find this on the “Similar Pages” link on Google’s main results page, and from the Advanced Search page, under Page Specific Search > Similar.

info:                      

Use info: to show Google’s information about that web page.

You can also find this by typing the web page url directly into a Google search box.

Define:

Use define: to get a definition of the words you enter, for example, define:space.           

stocks:                

Enter a query with the stocks: operator and Google will treat the rest of the query terms as stock ticker symbols, and will link to a page showing stock information for those symbols.

You can also search on the stock symbols (e.g. [stocks:amzn]) and then click on the “Show stock quotes” link on the results page.

site:                      

Enter site: in your query and Google restricts the results to those websites. For instance, [help site:www.intel.com] will find pages about help within www.intel.com.

Enter help site:com to find pages about help within those .com urls. No space between “site:” and domain.

Tip: Also found in the Advanced Search page, under Advanced Web Search > Domains.

 

allintitle:                             

Enter a query with allintitle: and Google restrict the results to those with all of the query words in the title. For instance, [allintitle: keats poem] will return only documents that have both “keats” and “poem” in the title.

Also available through Advanced Search page, under Advanced Web Search > Occurrences.

intitle:

Use intitle: in your query to restrict the results to documents containing that word in the title.

allinurl:

Search with [allinurl:] and Google will restrict the results to the query words in the url. For instance, [allinurl: java news] will return only documents that have both “java” and “news” in the url.

Tip: allinurl: works on words, not url components and ignores punctuation.

 

inurl:                     

Search with inurl: in your query and Google will restrict the results to documents containing that word in the url.

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