Search effectively on Google using Operators
Do a different type of search on Google using advanced Operators, which are query words that have special meaning to Google. If you want to search within the site, for example if you did not find admission information at Stanford University website, Just search within Stanford University website on Google using the query admission site:stanford.edu
It will give you admission related information within the Stanford university website stanford.edu. Most of you know searching at Google using basic search operators, Many of these special operators are accessible from the Advanced Search. But some of the special operators are not accessible, Below is the list of special operators Google supports.
link: The query list: gives list of webpages that have links to the specified webpage or site. For example link:digisteps.com, gives webpages that links to digisteps.com
related: This will give similar webpages to a specified webpage. For example related:washingtonpost.com, gives webpages that are similar to the washingtonpost website.
info: This query gives some information that Google has about the webpage. The info:blogger.com will give the information about blogger.com
define: This is a useful query as you can use it as a dictionary reference. It gives a definition of the words you enter after it, gathered from various online sources. For example define:salubrious gives you the meaning of salubrious.
stocks: This query is useful to you, If you want information about stocks. For example stock:yhoo gives you stock information about yahoo. Here you have to enter stock symbols not the company name.
site: If you use this query Google will restrict your search results to those websites in the given domain. For example beginners:problogger.net gives blogging stuff for beginners from problogger.
allintitle: If you use allintitle in the query, Google will restrict the results to those with all of the query words in the title. For example, allintitle:google search will return documents that have both google and search in the title.
intitle: If you include intitle: in your query, Google will restrict the results to documents containing that word in the title.
allinurl: If you start a query with allinurl: Google will restrict the results to those with all of the query words in the url. For instance, allinurl: google search will return only documents that have both “google” and “search” in the url.
inurl: If you include inurl: in your query, Google will restrict the results to documents containing that word in the url.
Note there can be no space between the operator and query words. For example info: and google.com, it should be info:google.com





