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by Answer Rabbit on April 14th, 2006

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What special characters or commands can I use during a web search?

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  • by davoomac on April 14th, 2006

    davoomac

    Heres a list of all the advanced google commands:
    (many of these work for other search engines too)

    * + = - / calculator commands
    site: search only one site
    [#]..[#]: search within a range of numbers
    filetype: find documennts of specified type
    link: Find linked pages, i.e., show pages that point to the URL.
    safesearch: exclude adult content
    book: search the text of a whole book
    books: same as above
    define: show definition of a word or phrase
    what is: same as above
    what are: same as above
    phonebook: show all phonebook listings
    bphonebook: show phonebook for business
    rphonebook: residential phonebook listings
    movie: reviews and showtimes
    stocks: Given ticker symbols, show stock information
    weather: show weather of search area
    cache: Display Google's cached version of a web page.
    info: Find info about a page.
    related: List web pages that are similar or related to the URL.
    allinanchor: All query words must appear in anchor text of links to the page.
    inanchor: Terms must appear in anchor text of links to the page.
    allintext: All query words must appear the in text of the page.
    intext: The terms must appear in the text of the page.
    allintitle: All query words must appear in the title of the page.
    intitle: The terms must appear in the title of the page.
    allinurl: All query words must appear in the URL.
    inurl: The terms must appear in the URL of the page.
    author: Find Groups messages from the specified author.
    group: Find Groups messages from the specified newsgroup.
    insubject: Find Groups messages containing the terms in the subject.
    location: Find News articles from sources located in the specified location.
    source: Find News articles from specified sources.
    store: Find Froogle products from the specified store.

    A list just like this one can be found at:
    http://www.googleguide.com/advanced_operators_reference.html
    a guide on how to use these can be found at:
    http://www.googleguide.com/advanced_operators.html
    A guide and list of commands for all kinds of different search engines can be found here: http://searchenginewatch.com/facts/article.php/2155981

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