The following is a description of and use of the Google Search operator. Increase search efficiency and maximize performance!
BASIC
| ” “ | If you enter a search term within double quotation marks, only results that must contain the search term will be displayed (ex. “Baseball” ). |
| | | It is the same function that can be used instead of OR (ex. Baseball | Football ) |
| OR | It must be written in capital letters, and even one of the two search terms will show the matching result (ex. Baseball OR Football ) |
| #..# | .. It shows the result value within the specified number (or date) range, but the accuracy is somewhat low (ex. best soccer players 2020..2023 ) |
| AND | Finds results related to both searched terms. (ex. baseball AND golf ) |
| – | Shows the rest of the search results except for a specific word (ex. Sports -baseball ) |
| * | * acts like a wild card to match any word, which is useful when you don’t know the exact search term (ex. Football *soccer ) |
| ( ) | This is a command that allows you to group search commands and control their order (ex. (Baseball OR Football) player ) |
| in | It is a command that can easily convert units (ex. 1inch in cm ) |
ADVANCED
| site: | Only results indexed from the website are shown (ex. site:www.cnn.com/weather ) |
| define: | Basically, it is a command that functions as Google’s built-in dictionary and displays definitions for search terms (ex. define:weather ) |
| related: | This command finds websites similar to a specific website (ex. related:google.com ) |
| weather: | Search for the weather in a location. (ex. weather:madrid ) |
| stocks: | Search the stock information of the stock code (ex. stock:tsla ) |
| intitle: | Functions to command to find a page with a specific search term in the page title (title tag) (ex. intitle: london weather ) |
| allintitle: | Intitle: Functions like a command, but displays only results that include multiple search terms (ex. allintitle: paris 5days weather ) |
| inurl: | Functions to command to find pages with a specific search term in the page URL (ex. inurl:weather ) |
| allinurl: | Functions like the inurl: command, but displays only results that contain multiple search terms (ex. allinurl:paris 5days weather ) |
| intext: | Functions to command to find pages that contain search terms in the text (ex. intext: newyork weather ) |
| allintext: | Functions like inurl: command, but displays only results that contain multiple search terms (ex. allintext: newyork weather ) |
| filetype: | This is a command that limits search results to specific file extensions and can be replaced with “ext:” (ex. filetype:pdf seoul ) |
| cache: | If you add the URL after the command and search, Google will show the cached version of the web page most recently indexed (ex. cache:www.cnn.com ) |
| AROUND(X) | Returns results where two search terms are spaced no more than X words or phrases (ex. travel AROUND(3) 2weeks ) |