Thursday, August 21, 2008

Web Search Help: basic queries

  • Looking for pages that have the words search engine optimization?
    Use the notation: search engine optimization.
  • Pages that have the word search or the word engine or the word optimization.
    Use the notation: or
    i.e. search or engine or optimization
  • Pages that have the exact phrase search engine optimization.
    Use the notation: " "
    i.e. "search engine optimization"
  • Pages that have the words search engine but not the word optimization.
    Use the notation: - (minus)
    i.e. search engine -optimization
  • Pages that have the words search engine optimization and the word marketing, adding a + to marketing it means that every match must have the word marketing even if Google wants to discard it as irrelevant.
    Use the notation: +
    i.e. search engine optimization + marketing
  • Pages that have the word optimization and synonyms.
    Use the notation: ~
    i.e. ~optimization
  • Pages that have the word SEO or the word SEM or the word Marketing
    Use the notation: SEO|SEM|Marketing ( Google sees "SEO" or "SEM" or "Marketing" ).
    To group search terms together use pharantesis:
    i.e. ("SEO" or "SEM" or "Marketing")
  • Pages that point to a specified website, i.e.: http://mediapluck.blogspot.com/
    Use the notation: link:
    i.e. link:http://mediapluck.blogspot.com/
  • To find info about a specified page, i.e.http://mediapluck.blogspot.com/
    use the notation: info:
    i.e. info:http://mediapluck.blogspot.com/
  • To find related pages to a specified website, i.e. http://digg.com
    use the notation: related:
    i.e. related:www.digg.com
  • To find cached page of a specified website
    use the notation: cache:
    i.e. cache:http://mediapluck.blogspot.com/
  • Search for keywords within document titles
    use the notation: allintitle:
    i.e. allintitle:"mediapluck"
  • Search for pages that contain a specific word in URLs
    use the notation: inurl:
    i.e. inurl:mediapluck
  • Search for pages that contain a specific word in the anchor tags
    use the notation: inanchor:
    i.e. inanchor:mediapluck
  • Search for pages that contain a specific word in body text
    use the notation: allintext:
    i.e. allintext:mediapluck
  • Search for pages that contain specific word and exclude a d u l t content
    use the notation: safesearch:
    i.e. safesearch:body
  • Search pages that contain a specific word within a number range
    use the notation: #...#,
    i.e. condominium Vancouver $200,000...$300,000
  • Search pages that contain a specific word within specific date range
    use the notation: daterange:
    i.e. condominium Vancouver daterange:199801-200801
  • Search for web sites with a specified domain, i.e. .gov
    use the notation: site:.gov
  • If you are looking for a code of a specific country,
    use the notation: site:.ca"Vancouver"
  • If you are looking for a phone number,
    use the notation: phonebook:,
    i.e. phonebook:Web Search Techniques Canada
  • If you are looking for a business phone number,
    use the notation: bphonebook:
    i.e. bphonebook:Web Search Techniques CA
  • If you are looking for a residential phone number,
    use the notation: rphonebook:
    i.e. rphonebook:Stephen Harper Ottawa Ontario Canada

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

This is good to know. Great post.