Google Query Operators

Google supports several advanced operators, which are query words that have special meaning to Google. Typically these operators modify the search in some way, or even tell Google to do a totally different type of search. For instance, "link:" is a special operator, and the query [link:www.google.com] doesn't do a normal search but instead finds all web pages that have links to http://www.google.com.

Several of the more common operators use punctuation instead of words, or do not require a colon. Among these operators are OR, "" (the quote operator), - (the minus operator), and + (the plus operator).


Legend:
Operator - Blue
Description - White
Sample - Red

site
restricts results to sites within the specified domain
site:google.com fox

intitle
restricts results to documents whose title contains the specified phrase
intitle:fox fire


allintitle
restricts results to documents whose title contains all the specified phrases
allintitle:fox fire


inurl
restricts results to sites whose URL contains the specified phrase
inurl:fox fire


allinurl
restricts results to sites whose URL contains all the specified phrases
allinurl:fox fire


filetype:
restricts results to documents of the specified type
filetype:pdf fire


numrange
restricts results to documents containing a number from the specified range
numrange:1-100 fire


link
restricts results to sites containing links to the specified location
link:www.google.com


inanchor
restricts results to sites containing links with the specified phrase in their descriptions
inanchor:fire


allintext
restricts results to documents containing the specified phrase in the text, but not in the title, link descriptions or URLs
allintext:"fire fox"


+
specifies that a phrase should occur frequently in results
+fire


-
specifies that a phrase must not occur in results
-fire


" "
delimiters for entire search phrases (not single words)
"fire fox"


.
wildcard for a single character
fire.fox will return documents containing the phrases fire fox, fireAfox, fire1fox, fire-fox etc...


*
wildcard for a single word
* fox will return documents containing the phrases fire the fox, fire in fox, fire or fox etc...


|
logical OR
"fire fox" | firefox will return documents containing the phrase fire fox or the word firefox

I wonder who would have a use for the numrange operator.

Don Von Free Credits wrote:

I wonder who would have a use for the numrange operator.

I am sure you will find a use for it soon enough. I bet there are a few things related to Imvu we could use it for.

D.M wrote:

Don Von Free Credits wrote:

I wonder who would have a use for the numrange operator.

I am sure you will find a use for it soon enough. I bet there are a few things related to Imvu we could use it for.

Product IDs anyone?

Icekhaos wrote:

D.M wrote:

Don Von Free Credits wrote:

I wonder who would have a use for the numrange operator.

I am sure you will find a use for it soon enough. I bet there are a few things related to Imvu we could use it for.

Product IDs anyone?

That is a good idea, but I wonder when anyone would have a use for that type of search.
More power to you I guess.