Google: Search Tips (Part II)
Tuesday, 11 March 2008

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 Following on from our first part on Google Search Tips

Advanced Google Operators

daterange:

    Returns documents modified in the given time interval. Dates should be entered in julian format (so geeky, but a bit unusable). Using tyres daterange:2454091-2454101 you can find who talked about tyres in the last ten days of 2006  

 

filetype:
returns links to documents with the given file type.
For example searching for tyres filetype:java will find portable and object-oriented tyres.
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:d-pit.com will find all indexed page on www.d-pit.com; while site:d-pit.com tyres will find all tyres-related pages on www.d-pit.com.

 

update:
you can use the site operator also to find your supplemental results using this query: site:www.d-pit.com *** -sljktf. (taken from an intresting article about Google Supplemental Index Results by Aaron Wall)

 

cache:
shows the cached version of given webpage. Other words in the query will be highlighted in the returned page, try cache:www.d-pit.com tyres

 

link:
lists webpages that link to the given webpage. link:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/windows will list webpages with links pointing to wikipedia’s voice for windows

 

related:
returns pages that google somehow thiks are related to the given page. Not always accurate.

 

info:
returns some information about the given web page. Typically website and description.

 

define:
returns the definition of a given word. Try define:tyres

 

phonebook:
search in residential phone book. sample: phonebook:murphy New York


stoks:
returns stock info: try stocks:goog


weather:
weather informations for the given city. weather:new york

 

movie:

returns all movies related to the search term given. Sample: movie:cars

You can also find movies by locations: movie:nyc , movie 10015

 

flights:
you can search for flights inside USA using the airport code (does not work for every airport). sample: jfk lax

 

 

See the third part of our Google Tips for the SEO-Orientated Google Operators, and more .....

 

 

 
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