~ (Hyphen)Deprecated

Also search for synonyms by using ~ before a search word i.e. ~​books 

filetype:

​Search after documents like PDF, DOC, CVS… i.e. filetype:books

link: Deprecated

Shows pages linking to a domain i.e. pages linking to allbestnet.com 

related:

Will return site related to the site search for i.e. ”related:allbestnet.com” will return websites that are related to allbestnet.com

AND

Search for A and B.
​Example: Apple AND Mac

The OR (|) operator​

Search for A or B, or both
​Example: Apple OR product

( )

Group many word together to specify the order the search should be executed
Example: (1984 OR Brave New World) books

"search word"

Use "" to exclude synonym from word or sentence.

Use together with wildcard to search e.g. name like  “George * Bush” to search for George Walker Bush, George H. W. Bush etc.

.. (search within a range)

Find the year the world war 2 took place
Example: [ WW2 1900..2000 ]
or
necklace $10..$30 will search for necklace with a price between 10 and 30

OR

Search for one or all word i.e. computer OR pc

inurl:
​ allinurl:

Find pages with specific word in the url. ALL before inure will result all of the specific word

site:

Only search a specific domain
Example: search word site:allbestnet.com
You can also search only .com by using site:.com
  • A search like [ site:*.files.*.com ] will find all of the .com sites with “.filetypes” in the domain name. 
  • Also try:  [ site:*.index.com ] will match all of the .index.com sites with a subdomain.  
  • Also:  [ site:*.edu.*  inurl:reading-list ] gives lots of good reading lists

inanchor:
allinanchor:

Find pages linked to with a specific anchor text

  • allinanchor: best website
  • inanchor: best +website 
  • inanchor: best website will only search for best in anchor text

For instance, this best website has “best website” as its anchor text.

"-"

Exclude word from search

* (wildcard) 

Use to try different combination off words. Google see the wildcard as an unknown.

ex. Elizabeth Warren voted * on the * bill will give you result for many votes .

AROUND(n)

Search for word with maximum n different word between them. 
example: "Steve Jobs" AROUND(3) books return search where this 2 is no more than 3 words apart

Using in (intent:) before every word is the same as using allin (allintext:) once

Cool things to with Google

  1. Drag a link to address bar
  2. See trip suggestions; London destination or London vacation
  3. Find event city; London events
  4. Find timezone; London timezone
  5. Find different in time; time New York time London
  6. Highlight a word and drag it to address bar to perform search
  7. See Google Flights information [New York] to London,
  8. See distance [New York] to London distance
  9. ADD ncr to the end of google url to search global. NCR = No Country Redirect​
  10. ​If you don’t want to be tracked and also getting cleaner url use Don't track me Google
  11. Find word origin; etymology [London]
  12. Find definition; define [website]
  13. Sunset and sunrise; sunrise London sunset London
  14. Find top list intitle:"top 7..100  " "subject"
  15. Find resources books (intitle:"resources" | inurl:resources) 

LEARN MORE

https://sites.google.com/site/dmrussell
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ydVaJJeL1EYbWtlfj9TPfBTE5IBADkQfZrQaBZxqXGs/edit