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Basic Examples Finds Pages Containing...

biking Italy the words biking and Italy
recycle steel OR iron information on recycling steel or recycling iron
"I have a dream" the exact phrase I have a dream
salsa –dance the word salsa but NOT the word dance
Louis +I France information about Louis the First (I), weeding out other kings of France
castle ~glossary glossaries about castles, as well as dictonaries, lists of terms, terminology, etc.
fortune-telling all forms of the term, whether spelled as a single word, a phrase, or hyphenated
define:imbroglio definitions of the word imbroglio from the Web

Calculator Meaning Type Into Search Box

+–*/ basic arithmetic 12 + 34 - 56 * 7 / 8
% of percentage of 45% of 39
^ or ** raise to a power 2^5 or 2**5
old units in new units convert units 300 Euros in USD, 130 lbs in kg, or 31 in hex

Restrict What to Type Into Search Box

Meaning
Search (& Description of Results)
sfo bos
city1 city2 Book flights.
(Book flights from San Francisco (SFO) to Boston (BOS).)
Search only one website or Halloween site:www.census.gov
site:
domain. (Search for information on Halloween gathered by the US Census Bureau.)
Search within a range of Dave Barry pirate 2002..2006
[#]. .[#]
numbers. (Search for Dave Barry articles mentioning pirates written in these years.)
filetype: Find documents of the Form 1098-T IRS filetype:pdf
(or ext:) specified type. (Find the US tax form 1098-T in PDF format.)
Find linked pages, i.e., show link:warriorlibrarian.com
link:
pages that point to the URL. (Find pages that link to Warrior Librarian's website.)

Specialized Information Queries

book Ender's Game
book
Search full-text of books. (Show book-related information.
(or books)
Note: No colon needed after book.)
define monopsony, what is podcast
define, what is, Show a definition for a word or
(Show a definition for the words monopsony and podcast.
what are phrase.
Note: No colon after define, what is, or what are.)
Provide definitions for words,
define:kerning
define: phrases, and acronyms from the
(Find definitions for kerning from the Web.)
Web.
phonebook: Disney CA
phonebook: Show all phonebook listings.
(Search for Disney's phone numbers in California - CA.)
rphonebook: bill jones NY
rphonebook: Show residential phonebook listings. (Search for the phone number of every Bill Jones in New
York State - NY.)
movie: traffic
movie: Find reviews and showtimes. (Search for information about this movie, including reviews,
showtimes, etc.)
Given ticker symbols, show stock stocks: goog
stocks:
information (Find Google's current stock price.)
weather Seattle WA, weather 81612
Given a location (US zip code or
weather (Show the current weather and forecast.
city), show the weather
Note: No colon after weather.)

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Alternative Query Types

Display Google's cached cache:www.irs.gov
cache:
version of a web page. (Show Google's cached version of the US Internal Revenue Service home page.)
info: info:www.theonion.com
Find info about a page.
(or id:) (Find information about The Onion website.)
List web pages that are related:www.healthfinder.gov
related: similar or related to the
(Find websites related to the Healthfinder website.)
URL.

Restrict Search to Sites Where Query Words Appear

All query words must appear
allinanchor:useful parenting sites
allinanchor: in anchor text of links to the
(Search for pages that are called useful parenting sites by others.)
page.
Terms must appear in restaurants Portland inanchor:kid-friendly
inanchor: anchor text of links to the (Search for pages on Portland restaurants for which links to the page
page. say they are "kid friendly.")
All query words must appear allintext:ingredients cilantro chicken lime
allintext:
the in text of the page. (Search for recipes with these three ingredients.)
Dan Shugar intext:Powerlight
The terms must appear in (Find pages mentioning Dan Shugar where his company, Powerlight, is
intext:
the text of the page. included in the text of the page, i.e., less likely to be from the corporate
website.)
allintitle: Google Advanced Operators
All query words must appear
allintitle: (Search for pages with titles containing "Google," "Advanced,", and
in the title of the page.
"Operators".)
movies comedy intitle:top ten
The terms must appear in
intitle: (Search for pages with the words movie and comedy that include top
the title of the page.
ten in the title of the page.)
allinurl: All query words must appear allinurl:pez faq
in the URL. (Search for pages containing the words pez & faq in the URL.)
The terms must appear in pharmaceutical inurl:investor
inurl:
the URL of the page. (Search for pages in which the URL contains the word investor.)

Restrict Search to Google Groups

Find Groups messages from the specified flying author:Hamish author:Reid
author:
author. (Search for Hamish Reid's articles on flying.)
ivan doig group:rec.arts.books
Find Groups messages from the specified
group: (Search for postings about Ivan Doig in the group
newsgroup.
rec.arts.books.)
insubject:"crazy quilts"
Find Groups messages containing crazy quilts
insubject: (Find articles containing crazy quilts in the subject
in the subject.
line.)

Restrict Search to Google News

Find News articles from sources located in the queen location:uk
location:
specified location. (Find British news articles on the Queen.)
peace source:ha_aretz
source: Find News articles from specified sources. (Show articles on peace from the Israeli newspaper
Ha'aretz.)

Restrict Search to Froogle

jeans store:gap
store: Find Froogle products from the specified store.
(Find Gap jeans.)

About This Cheat Sheet

For more tips, tricks, & examples, visit www.GoogleGuide.com.
By Nancy Blachman, Tasha Bergson-Michelson, & Jerry Peek who don't work for Google.
Thank you Matt Vance for the idea of creating a Google Guide cheat sheet.

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