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.
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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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