Have you ever wondered how to search Google for terms inside a specific website? Or find how many sites link to yours? Below is a list of common advanced search techniques with descriptions and examples:
Search for an exact phrase"exact phrase to search"
Will return only results with the exact phrase.
Search within one websitesite:www.website.com "search phrase"
This example searches through www.website.com for the phrase “search phrase”.
Search for link to a specific websitelink:www.website.com
Will return all the websites that have a link to www.website.com.
Exclude words or phrases from search resultssearch phrase -excluded
Searches for the phrase but will only return results excluding the text after the minus sign.
View a cached version of a web pagecache:www.website.com
View a cached version of www.website.com
Search for a specific type of filegoogle ebook filetype:pdf
Searches for only PDF files containing ‘google ebook’
Search for phrase only in websites’ title tagallintitle:"google articles"
Searches for web pages with “google articles” in the title tag.
Search for keyword only in website’s URLinurl:googlearticles
Searches for pages with ‘googlearticles’ in the URL, including the domain name and subdomain or page names.
These are a great way to quickly search from Google’s home page, without having to click over to the advanced search.
