Google's Search Options
You can use any of the following options to refine your search in various ways.
| Option | Purpose |
|---|---|
| allintitle: | Use this option to find pages which have the search terms within the titles. For example, "allintitle:tom jones" will find all sites with "tom" and "jones" in the title. |
| allinurl: | If you want to only find pages with the search terms actually within the URL, then this is your option. |
| cache:url | This shows the version of the URL that Google has in it's cache. |
| daterange:range | Restrict the date range searched for to the specific Julian date range. Visit the following site: http://aa.usno.navy.mil/data/docs/JulianDate.html for a Julian date converter. For example, "daterange:2452511- 2452511 would find all documents with a date of August 25th, 2002. |
| filetype:type | Restrict searches to the specified file type. |
| info:url | You can use this option to show a page which shows information about the URL, including back links, related searches and pages containing the URL. |
| intitle: | This is similar to "allintitle" except it only applies to the single search term following. |
| inurl: | This is similar to "allinurl" except it only applies to the single search term following. |
| link:url | This option lists all of the pages which Google has found which have links to the URL. |
| related:url | Use this option to see all of the pages which are related to the URL. This is the same as the "What's related" section on the search engine results pages. |
| spell: | Does not do a search - performs a spell check. |
| stocks: | Allows you to look up the search terms in a stock index. |
| AND | Include between terms to indicate that both must be present. |
| OR | This indicates that one term or the other may be present. Both are not necessary. |
| + | Include this in front of a term to indicate it MUST be included in the page. For example, "+tom jones" means "tom" must be on the page, but "jones" is optional. |
| - | This means the term must NOT be on the page. "-tom jones" searches for pages without "tom" but with "jones". |
| "phrase" | Enclose it in quotes to specify an exact phrase. |