Explore Web With Google

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This time I am back with tips to explore Google.Do you know every day Google logs around 2 billion searches, So around 300 million people uses Google for their day to day searches. But some times many of us feel that Google is not able give the information which they are searching for..For those whose who feel that Google is not giving them the information they required, This post will be very useful....

1) If you like to search only in particular web sites then  site:google.com firefox will find all sites containing the word firefox, located within the *.google.com domain .


2)To Restrict results to documents whose title contains the specified phrase, intitle:fox fire will find all sites with the word fox in the title and fire in the text.

3)To Restrict results to documents whose title contains all the specified phrases this will help you, allintitle:fox fire will find all sites with the words fox and fire in the title, so it's equivalent to intitle:fox intitle:fire

4)To get from the sites whose URL contains the specified phrase ,inurl:fox fire will find all site containing the word fire in the text and fox in the URL .

5)To Restrict results to sites whose URL contains all the specified phrases ,allinurl:fox fire will find all sites with the words fox and fire in the URL, so it's equivalent to inurl:fox inurl:fire .

6)To get results from documents of the specified type ,filetype:pdf fire will return PDFs containing the word fire, while filetype:xls fox will return Excel spreadsheets with the word fox.

7)To Restrict results to documents containing a number from the specified range ,use numrange:1-100 fire will return sites containing a number from 1 to 100 and the word fire. The same result can be achieved with 1..100 fire .

8)To Restricts results to sites containing links to the specified location ,link:www.google.com will return documents containing one or more links to www.google.com .

9)This Restricts results to sites containing links with the specified phrase in their descriptions ,inanchor:fire will return documents with links whose description contains the word fire (that's the actual link text, not the URL indicated by the link) .

10)This Restricts results to documents containing the specified phrase in the text, but not in the title, link descriptions or URLs ,allintext:"fire fox" will return documents which contain the phrase fire fox in their text only.

11)Specifies that a phrase should occur frequently in results ,specifies that a phrase should occur frequently in results .

12)Specifies that a phrase must not occur in results ,-fire will return documents that don't contain the word
fire .

13)This will return documents that don't contain the word fire ,"fire fox" will return documents containing the phrase fire fox .

14)A Wild card for a single character ,fire.fox will return documents containing the phrases fire fox, fireAfox, fire1fox, fire-fox etc.

15)Wild card for a single word ,fire * fox will return documents containing the phrases fire the fox, fire in fox, fire or fox etc .

16)Using Operator , logical OR ,"fire fox" | firefox will return documents containing the phrase fire fox or the word firefox .

17)To view the definition of a word use the following method , Syntax: define: .

18)You can use the Google search box as your scientific calculator as  sqrt(10) .

19)Actually Not all Googles are the same! Depending on your location, Google will forward you to a different country-specific version of Google with potentially different results to the same query. A search for [site:stormfront.org] from the US will yield hundreds of thousands of results, whereas the same search from Germany (at least if you don’t change the default redirect to Google.de) returns... zilch. Yes, Google does at times agree to country-specific censorship, like in Germany, France (Google web search), or China (Google News)..

These are the tips which i came to know if any one knows more than these write them as comments .