Searching on Google can be a magical experience once you find out how to make your search queries efficient. By making efficient I mean using some tricks or the cheat sheet provided by Google itself to quickly find what you actually require.
Everybody loves Google. We all know they can help us find a local diner, free music, software, etc, but what else do they have to offer? The comprehensive cheat sheets above show you every Google tool, trick, and application you never knew existed.
Here are the top Google Shortcuts :-
| Google Shortcut | Finds Pages That Have… |
| nokia phone | the words nokia and phone |
| sailing OR boating | either the word sailing or the word boating |
| “love me tender” | the exact phrase love me tender |
| printer -cartridge | the word printer but NOT the word cartridge |
| Toy Story +2 | movie title including the number 2 |
| ~auto | looks up the word auto and synonyms |
| define:serendipity | definitions of the word serendipity |
| how now * cow | the words how now cow separated by one or more words |
| + | addition; 978+456 |
| - | subtraction; 978-456 |
| * | multiplication; 978*456 |
| / | division; 978/456 |
| % of | percentage; 50% of 100 |
| ^ | raise to a power; 4^18 (4 to the eighteenth power) |
| old in new (conversion) | 45 celsius in Fahrenheit |
| site:(search only one website) | site:websearch.about.com “invisible web” |
| link:(find linked pages) | link:www.lifehacker.com |
| #…#(search within a number range) | nokia phone $200…$300 |
| daterange:(search within specific date range) | bosnia daterange:200508-200510 |
| safesearch: (exclude adult content) | safesearch:breast cancer |
| info: (find info about a page) | info:www.websearch.about.com |
| related: (related pages) | related:www.websearch.about.com |
| cache: (view cached page) | cache:google.com |
| filetype:(restrict search to specific filetype) | zoology filetype:ppt |
| allintitle: (search for keywords in page title) | allintitle:”nike” running |
| inurl:(restrict search to page URLs) | inurl:chewbacca |
| site:.edu (specific domain search) | site:.edu, site:.gov, site:.org, etc. |
| site:country code (restrict search to country) | site:.br “rio de Janeiro” |
| intext:(search for keyword in body text) | intext:parlor |
| allintext: (return pages with all words specified in body text) | allintext:north pole |
| book(search book text) | book The Lord of the Rings |
| phonebook:(find a phone number) | phonebook:Google CA |
| bphonebook: (find business phone numbers) | bphonebook:Intel OR |
| rphonebook:(find residential phone numbers) | rphonebook:Joe Smith Seattle WA |
| movie:(search for showtimes) | movie:wallace and gromit 97110 |
| stocks:(get a stock quote) | stocks:ncesa |
| weather:(get local weather) | weather:97132 |
You can download the Google Cheat Sheet here.
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{ 2 comments… read them below or add one }
Seems cool. I’ve just knew that you can direct search a movie in google using this tag : movie:(search for showtimes)
Thanks for sharing..
its really great tips, thanks for share