Search options

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The webpages mailltained by the Google Help Cellter have text describing more thall 15 various search options.I9] The Google operator
OR - search lor either or.e, such as "price high OR low" searches lor "price high" or"price~.
- (minus sign) - Exclude a word or a phrase, such as "apple -tree" searches where word "tree"is not used.
"" - Force inclusion 01 a word or a phrase (Note that the original ~ operator was removed on OCtober 19, 2011).13")
- Wildcard operator to match any words between other specific words, e.g. "type' blood".
- Range operator,ISO) e g. "$50.. S100".

Some 01 the query options are as follows:

d~fin~: - The quefY prefix "define:" wil provide a definrtionl'9] 01 the words listed aner rt.
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- Aner "slocks:" the query terms are treated as stock ticker syml>ols{'9] for lookUp.

~1t~: - Restrict the resuRs to those websiles in the given domain,{'9] such as, "it~ :""".01<=11<'01""'" .COID.. The option "srte:com" will search all

domain URLs named with ".com" (no space aner "site:").

1nt~xt:

- Prerlllio search in a we!>page text, such as "illte:d:google search" willisl pages with word "google" in the text 01 the page, and word

"search" anywhere (no space aner "illtext:").

allintitl~: - Only the page trUes are searchedl'9] (not the remaining lext Oil each webpage).

inti tl~: - Prefix 10 search in a we!>page 1rtIe,I'91 such as "inlitle:google search" willist pages with word "google" in litle, and word "search"

anywhere (no space aner "intitle:").

allinud: - Only the page URL address lines are searchedl'9) (not the lext illside each webpage).
inud: - PrefIX lor each word to be round in the URL;('9] others words are matched anywhere, such as "inurtacme search" matches "acme" in a

URL, but matches "search" anywhere (no space after "inurt:").

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(or query types) are:

- Highlighls the search-words within the cached document, such as "cache:www.google.com XXX" shows cached content with word "Xxx"

highlighted.

link: - The prefix "link:" wiI Jist we!>pages that have links to the specilled webpage, such as "hnk:wwwgoogle.com" lisls we!>pages linking to the

Google homepage.

r~lat~d:

- The prefix "related:" will list webpages that are"smriar" to a specified web page.

info: - The prefix "inlo:" wiI display some background illrormation about one specified we!>page, such as, inlo:www.google.com. Typically, the inro

is the ftrsllext (160 bytes, about 23 words) contained in the page, displayed in the style 01 a results elltry (lor just the 1 page as matching the search).

fil~tn)~:

- results will only show files 01 the desired type (e_g. filetype:pdl will return pdl riles)