Google Search Prefixes or Query Options
Most of us knew handful of prefixes that can be used in Google for specific purpose like link:, related: or site:. However there are much more whose utility can vary amongst general users to webmasters. Lets see some of the most useful and valuable prefixes that are blessing in disguise.
- define:Word – Shows dictionary meaning of the word from various sources. Easiest to use, most useful of all.
- link:www.site.com – Shows other pages that links to that url.
- related:www. site.com – find sites that Google considers related.
- site:www.site.com – restrict search the pages of a specified site.
- allinurl: shows only pages with all terms in the url.
- inurl: like allinurl, but only for the next query word.
- allintitle: shows only results with terms in title.
- intitle: same as allintitle, but only for the next word.
- intitle:search google finds only pages with search in the title, and google anywhere on the page.
- cache:url gives you google’s recorded version of webpage.
- info:url will give you description about a given site. This is same as typing url in search box.
- spell: does a spellcheck on your querry. you don’t have to do this, google will automatically spellcheck any words searched.
- stocks: does a search for stocks quotes of a company. For example stocks:GOOG.
- filetype: does a search for a specific file type. For example filetype:doc will search for Microsoft word files along with search querry.
- daterange: is supported in Julian date format only. 2452384 is an example of a Julian date. For example Star Wars daterange:2452122-2452234 .
- maps: shortcut to do a google maps search.
- phone: searches for anything that looks like a phonenumber.
- allinlinks: searches only within links, not text or title.
- allintext: searches only within text of pages, but not in the links or page title
- allinanchor:keyword – list results ordered by number of anchor texts as keyword
For example allinanchor:love. Note the difference inhttp://www.google.com/search?q=allinanchor%3Alove andhttp://www.google.com/search?q=love
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