Google Search. Tips & Tricks : Google Search. Tips & Tricks Dharmendra S Giri
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Google Search Options : Google Search Options Things to Know
Google is not case sensitive: searching for doughnut is the same as DoughNuT
search operators are case sensitive:
searching for doughnuts OR donuts uses OR as the google operator, while doughnuts or donuts does not.
Google default is to search for pages that include all of your search terms. Also the order of your search term is somehow relevant.
Google excludes common words (also called stop words) like “I” , “the” etc. some operators can be combined, while others must be used alone. 5 LipNi Services
Google Search Options : Google Search Options Basic Operators
“+”
Forces words to be included in search results. Useful with stop words that otherwise will be discarded
“-”
Prevents a search term to show in results, for example searching for doughnut -cream can help you to avoid creamy doughnuts 6 LipNi Services
Google Search Options : Google Search Options OR
returns documents with one of the given terms, like doughnut OR donut. You can also use | instead of OR: doughnut | donut
” “
using quotes forces google to search for the exact phrase (including stop words), try “doughnut at midnight” and doughnut at midnight (actually, using quotes is similar, but not equals, to doughnut-at-midnight … it would be interesting to know what is the exact difference in SERP)
~
allow to search also for synonyms of the given word. searching for doughnut ~tips finds also pages with the word help or guide etc.
*
means every word. try “doughnuts with *”
..
Used to search in a range of numbers, “2..20 doughnuts” will find pages containing “I eat 3 doughnuts a day” and “I’ll never eat more than 15 doughnuts in a month”
This operators can be combined to create advanced queries, for example “I eat 1..100 doughnut OR doughnuts OR donut OR donuts each *” 7 LipNi Services
Google Search operators- Advanced : Google Search operators- Advanced Advanced Google operators 8 LipNi Services
Google Search operators : Google Search operators daterange:
Returns documents modified in the given time interval. Dates should be entered in julian format (so geeky, but a bit unusable).
Using doughnuts daterange:2454091-2454101 you can find who talked about doughnuts in the last ten days of 2006
filetype:
returns links to documents with the given file type.
For example searching for doughnuts filetype:java will find portable and object-oriented doughnuts.
Currently officially supported file types are pdf, ps, wk1, wk2, wk3, wk4, wk5, wki, wks, wku, lwp, mw, xls, ppt, doc, wks, wps, wdb, wri, rtf, swf, ans, txt, but other are supported as well, like xml, cpp, java etc.
site:
restricts the results to the given domain. site:mapelli.info will find all indexed page on www.mapelli.info, while site:mapelli.info doughnuts will find all doughnuts-related pages on www.mapelli.info .
update: you can use the site operator also to find your supplemental results using this query: site:www.mapelli.info *** -sljktf. 9 LipNi Services
Google Search operators- Advanced : Google Search operators- Advanced cache:
shows the cached version of given webpage. Other words in the query will be highlighted in the returned page, try cache:www.mapelli.info doughnuts
link:
lists webpages that link to the given webpage. link:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doughnut will list webpages with links pointing to wikipedia’s voice for Doughnut
related:
returns pages that Google somehow thinks are related to the given page. Not always accurate.
info:
returns some information's about the given web page. Typically website and description.
define:
returns the definition of a given word. Try define:doughnuts (in case you are an alien and you don’t know what a Doughnut is ) 10 LipNi Services
Google Search operators- Advanced : Google Search operators- Advanced phonebook:
search in residential phone book.
sample: phonebook:smith Los Angeles
stocks:
returns stock info: try stocks:goog
weather:
weather information's for the given city. weather:los angeles
movie:
returns all movies related to the search term given.
Sample: movie:doughnuts
You can also find movies by locations: movie:nyc , movie:10015 11 LipNi Services
Google Search operators : Google Search operators SEO-oriented Operators 12 LipNi Services
Google Search operators- : Google Search operators- allintitle:
Search for documents with the given words in their title. allintitle:doughnuts chocolate will find all the documents with title containing ‘doughnuts’ and ‘chocolate’. This operator cannot be combined with others.
intitle:
Search for documents with the first word after the intitle operator in their title. intitle:doughnuts chocolate will find all the documents with title containing ‘doughnuts’ and talking about chocolate. Note that the word ‘chocolate’ is not necessarily in the title.
allintext:
Search for documents with the given words in their text. allintext:doughnuts chocolate will find all the documents with text containing ‘doughnuts’ and ‘chocolate’. This operator cannot be combined with others. 13 LipNi Services
Google Search operators- : Google Search operators- intext:
Search for documents with the first word after the intext operator in their text. intext:doughnuts chocolate will find all the documents with text containing ‘doughnuts’ and talking about chocolate. Note that the word ‘chocolate’ is not necessarily in the text
allinurl:
Search for documents with the given words in their url. allinurl:doughnuts chocolate will find all the documents with url containing ‘doughnuts’ and ‘chocolate’. This operator cannot be combined with others.
inurl:
Search for documents with the first word after the inurl operator in their url. inurl:doughnuts chocolate will find all the documents with url containing ‘doughnuts’ and talking about chocolate. Note that the word ‘chocolate’ is not necessarily in the text
allinanchor:
Search for documents with the given words in an anchor. allinurl:doughnuts chocolate will find all the documents with anchor text containing ‘doughnuts’ and ‘chocolate’. This operator cannot be combined with others.
inanchor:
Search for documents with the first word after the operator in an anchor. inanchor:doughnuts chocolate will find all the documents with anchor containing ‘doughnuts’ and talking about chocolate. Note that the word ‘chocolate’ is not necessarily in an anchor. 14 LipNi Services
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Google- Search Future : LipNi Services 20 Google- Search Future MODES
- mobile Search needs to be more–
- Available and easy to use in cell phones
- In cars and on handheld
- “Modes” of search will change – voice and natural language search.
- Talk to a search engine in your voice.
- Ask questions verbally or by typing them in as natural language expressions.
MEDIA
-Images, videos, news, books, and maps/local information in our main Google
LANGUAGE
- Answer exists in a language you can’t read.
- This is why Google is investing in machine translation
Google- Search Future : LipNi Services 21 Google- Search Future PERSONILIZATION
- Understand more about you, the individual user.
- You can control of your personal information,
- whatever personal information the search engine uses will be with your permission and will be transparent to you.
-Where you are located
-Information you already know
- What you learned earlier today,
Location
-Your location is one potentially useful facet of personalized information.
Social
-personalization is social context.
-Who am I friends with,
and how do I relate to them?
How can I harness their knowledge more efficiently?
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