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features & syntaxes (in url, in title...)

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Test these web search features : within the forms below, replace "website.com", "searched word", "query"... with your own words and queries...

> For these features, respect the dots (.) and spaces with care

Search for sites recently added in the index (Today, yesterday, within the last seven days, or last 30 days)
Find the most popular web sites (higher Page rank) indexed by Google
Find ALL the pages of a web site (or all the pages that point to that site) scanned by Googlebot (Google's web-crawling robot)
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Linked page : Find external pages that point to an URL
Restrict your search to a specific site
Similar pages : Find pages that are related to a result (web pages with similar or close contents and topics)
Search for a non-HTML file formats (PDF, Word, Excel, Access, Power Point...) + Complet list of file types indexed by Google
Find financial informations about a company or corporation
Find street maps in USA
Check a word or queries spelling

Not so-well-known search features :
All in URL :
Restrict the results to documents containing the word (of the query) in the URL ONLY
In URL :
Restrict the results to documents containing the word (of the query) in the URL and anywhere in the page.
All in title : Restrict the results to documents containing the word (of the query) in the title only
In title : Restrict the results to documents containing the word (of the query) in the title and anywhere in the page

Combination of syntaxes inurl + intitle

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Search for sites recently added in the index (Today, yesterday, within the last seven days, last 30 days) :
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Find the most popular web sites (higher Page rank) indexed by Google

 

Find ALL the pages of a web site (or all the pages that point to that site) scanned by Googlebot (Google's web-crawling robot ).


  fill in with your own words and queries :

Example : yahoo.com

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Linked pages : Find and count external pages( indexed by Google) that point to that URL.  

fill in with your own words and queries :
Ex : link:http://www.nytimes.com

 

Restrict your search to a specific site : To find information on a specific site and only inside this site, you can use this syntax : [query site:http://www.domainname.com]

Ex : Linux site:http://www.microsoft.com

 

Similar pages : Find pages that are related to a result (web pages with similar or close contents and topics)
Example : The syntax "similar pages" for Ford.com finds Generals Motors, Chrysler, Toyota,...

  fill in with your own words and queries :
Ex : related:http://www.boeing.com

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Restrict the results to documents containing the word (of the query) in the URL and anywhere in the page.

fill in with your own words and queries :


 

Restrict the results to documents containing the word (of the query) in the URL ONLY


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Restrict the results to documents containing the word (of the query) in the title and anywhere in the page



 

Restrict the results to documents containing the word (of the query) in the title only



Of course, you can combine the 2 syntaxes inurl and intitle . Example :
allintitle:green inurl:green :
Restrict the results to documents containing the word "green" in the title AND in the URL.

 

 

Search for a word inside a non-HTML file formats including PDF documents, Excel, Word and many others.
: pdf (Adobe PDF), xls (Excel), doc (Word), ppt (Powerpoint),...: ). Type filetype:[extension of document]

Ex: filetype:xls account

File types indexed by Google :

Adobe Portable Document Format pdf
Adobe Postscript eps, ps
CorelWorldPerfectwp
DBasedbf
Lotus 123wk, wk1, wk2, wk3, wk4, wk5, wki, wku
Lotus Amiprosam
Lotus WordProlwp
Mac Writemw
Microsoft Excelxls
Microsoft Worddoc
Microsoft PowerPoint ppt
Microsoft Accessmdb
Rich Text Format (RTF)rtf
WordPadwri
Works Spreadsheet wps
Works Databasewdb
WorksText wks
WordStarws

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Check a word or query spelling

Ex : spell:Gougle

 


 

Financial informations : firms, corporations...To get stock and mutual fund information (NYSE, NASDAQ, AMEX) : Type the company name or the ticker symbol (ex: SNE for Sony Corporation)

Ex: stocks:ibm

 


 

Find street maps in USA : if you want to find streets maps locted in USA , enter a U.S. street address, including zip code or city/ state (Ex : 125 Bell Houston TX or 125 Bell 77022-2009, US). Often, the street address and city name will be enough (125 Bell HOUSTON).

Ex: 15800 Mulholland drive Los Angeles CA

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