ADVANCED GOOGLE SEARCH TECHNIQUES

Google - the word that dominates the internet world for past 5 years. Most of you might have used the Google without knowing its strength. In this article we are going to explore many of its strength via Advanced Search techniques that are available in the Google. All are practical oriented, if you try at least once the following keywords, then it will be an everlasting experience when you use the GOOGLE again.

Some Advanced Search techniques that we are going to explore are listed below:

• Arithmetic Operators like +,-...


• InUrl



• AllInUrl



• InText



• AllInText



• InTitle



• Cache



• Site



• Info



• Link



• Date



• DateRange

ARITHMETIC OPERATORS LIKE +,-...

Arithmetic Operators can be used effectively to refine our results.

Some examples are

+ Operator


This can be used to search a specific keyword in the specific site.



(E.g.) ftp +www.microsoft.com



This will return the result that contains the specified site as the first url.


- Operator

This operator can be used to return the result except the specified site.

(E.g.) ftp -www.microsoft.com


This will return the search pages except the microsoft.com




INURL

This keyword is used to display the result page in which all the urls will contain the specified word that is mentioned in the search box.

(E.g.) inurl:google

Will display the search page in which all the URL’s will contain the word Google.

AllINURL

This can be used to display the search results with specific keyword that is mentioned in your search box.

(E.g.) allinurl:yahoo




INTEXT

This keyword can be used to display the search page with the specified search word in the title.

(E.g.) intext:anna university




ALLINTEXT

Performs the same operation like intext, but in a more specified manner.

(E.g.) allintext:anna university





CACHE

GOOGLE will cache all the visited pages and displays the text pages of cached site.


Syntax

Cache:domain_name



(E.G) cache: www.arunai.org



Another way to visit the cached page, you can use the following


http://www.google.com/search?q=cache:www.annauniv.edu&strip=1





SITE

This keyword is used to display all pages that are related to single website.

(E.g.) site:www.arunai.org




INFO

Gives information about the site such as cached page, links etc...

(E.g.) info:www.arunai.org




LINK

Gives the result page with sites that are having link to the specified site

(E.g.) link:www.arunai.org



Will return the sites that are having link to www.arunai.org





DATE

Date keyword is used to find the websites that are added recently to particular site

(E.g.) google date:3



3 --> represents the month, it should be in the range of multiples of 3




DATERANGE

DateRange keyword is used to find the sites that are added to a particular site by specifying the range. Date should be specified in Julian format.

For example, if we want to know about sites that are added to Google from 9th September to 12th September, then use the following syntax