Google Search Tips and Tricks

• Search all Pages of a Site:-
  

site:"name of site"

for example.

site:http://imtarun.blogspot.com/

Using site: operator we can search all pages of site.

• Search Title of Web Pages:-
  

intitle:"search string"

for example.

intitle:"search free ebooks"

using intitle: operator we can search title of web pages for a particular string.

• Search Free ebooks:-
  

intitle:index.of? (pdf|chm) "ebook name"

For example.

intitle:index.of? (pdf|chm) hacking

above command search all Open directory for ebooks.

• Search Free Music and Movies:-
  

intitle:index.of? (mp3|dat|mpg|mpeg|rm|rmvb|3gp|flv|mkv|avi) "Music or Movie name"

For example.

intitle:index.of? (mp3|dat|mpg|mpeg|rm|rmvb|3gp|flv|mkv|avi) songs

above command is used to search music and movies. if you want movie in a format other than listed above then add yourself using | after avi.

• Search Particular Type of File(filetype:):-
  

"file to search" filetype:"file type"

For example.

syllabus filetype:pdf

filetype: operator is used to search a particular type of file for example pdf(ebook), txt(text file) etc.

• Search words in url of web pages(inurl):-
  

inurl:"string to search"

For example.

inurl:hacking

inurl: operator is used to search some words in the url of web pages.

• Google Search Tips

1. Use double quotes for searching given string e.g. "computer and networking tricks" using double quotes we will get result having whole string in the sequence as written above.
2. use + and - sign to include pages having word(+ ahead of it) and exclude pages having word(- ahead of it) e.g. computer and networking +tricks -tips the result will have page that contain tricks and do not have that contain tips.
3. put * in your search string where you are doubt full about the word or phrase. for e.g. hacking is * that will search page having phrase shown with some wild card terms.
4. use OR operator where you want to search terms contain either of its operands for e.g. tips OR tricks this will search pages containing either tips or tricks.

NOTE:-

• In case you are not used to of this or you don't like it then you can use google's advanced search
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