Advanced Google Searching and Browsing Tips, Tricks and Hacks

In addition to Google’s Advanced Search page, there are several keywords and modifiers that can be added to search terms to build an advanced search:

Mathematical, Currency and Time Searches:

Basic arithmetic (+ - * /):

123 * 4.5
136 / 9

Percentage of:

2% of 10

Raise to a power:

2 ^ 6
2 ** 6

Convert units, number systems or currencies:

15 inches in centimeters
9 in binary
10 american dollars in south african rands

Display the time in a specific location:

time:{name}

Basic and Boolean Searches:

Find results containing multiple terms:

{term_a} {term_b} {term_c}

Find results containing an exact phrase:

"{this is a phrase}"

Find results containing either term_a OR term_b:

{term_a} OR {term_b}
{term_a} | {term_b}

Find results containing term_a NEAR term_b:

{term_a} NEAR {term_b}

Find results containing term_a AND NOT term_b:

{term_a} -{term_b}

Find results containing both term_a AND term_b:

{term_a} +{term_b}

Find results containing a specific word and its synonymns:

~{word}

Find results containing only a specific word’s synonymns, not the word itself:

~{word} -{word}

Find results containing a range of numbers:

{term} {number_a}..{number_b}

Find results containing a phrase with wildcards (e.g. “Douglas Adams wrote *”):

{term} {term} * {term}

Website-specific searches:

Show all indexed pages for a specific domain:

site:{url}

Find pages that link to a specific URL:

link:{url}

Find pages related to a specific URL:

related:{url}

Show Google’s cached version of a specific URL:

cache:{url}

Show a page containing links to related searches about a URL:

info:{url}

Find only results from a specific domain:

site:{url} {terms}

Content-, Link-, and Title-specific searches:

Find results with the specified terms in the link URL or title of links to a website:

allinanchor:{terms}

Find results with only the first specified term in the link URL or title of links to a website:

inanchor:{terms}

Find results with the specified terms in the URL:

allinurl:{terms}

Find results with only the first specified term in the URL:

inurl:{terms}

Find results with the specified terms in the page title:

allintitle:{terms}

Find results with only the first specified term in the page title:

intitle:{terms}

Find results with the specified terms in the page text, not the links or page title:

allintext:{terms}

Find results with only the first specified term in the page text, not the links or page title:

intext:{terms}

Find results with the specified terms in the page links, not the text or title:

allinlinks:{terms}

Find results with only the first specified term in the page links, not the text or title:

inlinks:{terms}

Find results containing the specified filetype:

filetype:{filetype}

Find results not containing the specified filetype:

-filetype:{filetype}

Google Groups:

Find results from the specified author:

author:{name}

Find messages from the specified newsgroup:

group:{name}

Find messages with the specified subject:

insubject:{term}

Google News:

Find news articles from sources located in the specified location:

location:{name}

Find news articles from specified sources:

source:{name}

Froogle:

Find Froogle products from the specified store:

store:{name}

Specialized Information:

Search full-text of books:

book:{bookname}

Show a definition for an abbreviation, word, or term:

define:{term}

Show phonebook listings:

phonebook:{name} {state}

Show residential phonebook listings:

rphonebook:{name} {state}

Find movie reviews and showtimes:

movie:{name}

Find stock information from ticker symbols:

stocks:{ticker_symbol}

Find weather information:

weather:{location}

Find an area on a map:

{address}, {city}, {state}

Other Tips & Tricks

Find directory indexes (a listing of web server files) for specific topics and with specific filetypes:

{term} intitle:"index of /" {filetype}
php intitle:"index of /" .pdf

Find only images containing faces in a Google Image search result by adding ‘&imgtype=face‘ to the end of the search URL:

http://images.google.com/images?q=google
http://images.google.com/images?q=google&imgtype=face