When searching, both Google allows some keywords or expressions to filter the results or control the way how search is done. These can be very useful for finding the best results. Following are some of the easiest and most useful search modifiers.
- 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:Akashpadhiyar. Note the difference in
http://www.google.com/search?q=allinanchor:akashpadhiyar
http://www.google.com/search?q=akashpadhiyar
