Google Advanced Search Operators
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Allows searching for a specific phrase - exact match search. Individual word prevents synonyms |
Basic,Mail |
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Boolean search function for OR searches as Google defaults to AND between words - must be all caps |
Basic,Mail |
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Implements OR |
Basic |
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Allows grouping of operators and helps dictate order |
Basic,Mail |
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Excludes a word from results |
Basic,Mail |
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Acts as a wildcard and will match any word or phrase |
Basic |
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# represents a number in this instance. Use to find numbers in a series. |
Basic |
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Allows for search of USD |
Basic |
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Allows for search of Euro |
Basic |
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Allows searches for unit conversion (currency, un. it or measure) |
Basic |
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Prefix - Include synonyms (potentially defunct) |
Basic |
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Prefix - Force exact match on single phrase |
Basic,Mail |
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This is sandwiched between two words and the X declares how many words they must be mentioned between. I.e. if it’s (4) then the two keywords must be mentioned within 4 words of each other. |
Advanced |
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Acts as wildcard for autocomplete |
Advanced |
Search with url
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Only returns results where the queried keyword(s) is present in the URL |
Advanced |
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As above but only containing all of the specified words in the URL |
Advanced |
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Find blog URLs under a specific domain. This was used in Google blog search, but I’ve found it does return some results in regular search. |
Advanced |
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Limit results to those from one site |
Advanced |
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Find similar domains to the queried domain |
Advanced |
Search with dates
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Return results in a specified range (requires julian dates) |
Advanced |
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Allows you to search drive or mail for files modified or mail sent/received anytime after a set date |
Drive,Mail |
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Allows you to search drive or mail for files modified or mail sent/received before a certain date |
Drive,Mail |
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Search for messages older than a certain date |
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Search for messages newer than a certain date |
Search files
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Search for messages with a particular type of file attached, or the exact name of a file |
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Allows you to search drive by file type |
Drive |
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Allows you to search drive by owner of file or folder |
Drive |
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Allows you to search drive for files shared with a specific person |
Drive |
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Searches drive for files with the keyword in their title alone |
Drive |
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Allows you to search for files or folders shared with everyone in your business |
Drive |
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Returns only files of a particular type associated with the keyword searched |
Advanced |
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As above, based on extension |
Advanced |
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Allows you to search drive or mail for files modified or mail sent/received anytime after a set date |
Drive,Mail |
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Allows you to search drive or mail for files modified or mail sent/received before a certain date |
Drive,Mail |
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Searches for the item in the Drive bin |
Drive |
Search with page content
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Find pages that link to the target domain |
Advanced |
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Find pages linked to with the specified anchor text/ phrase. Data is heavily sampled. |
Advanced |
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Find pages with all individual terms after "inanchor:" in the inbound anchor text. |
Advanced |
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Returns pages based on the searched query appearing in their title |
Advanced |
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Similar to intitle: but only returns titles where all the words in the title match |
Advanced |
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Finds pages with keywords in their post titles (i.e. for researching blogs) |
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Finds pages where the keyword(s) are mentioned within the page content. |
Advanced |
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Similar to “intext,” but only results containing all of the specified words somewhere on the page will be returned. |
Advanced |
Keywords
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type E.g. cafe, restaurant, bar etc will return a selection of appropriate businesses in the are |
Maps |
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Station EV near me or perol station near me returns |
Maps |
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for a message with a google sheet attached |
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for a message with a google presentation attached |
Search on emails
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Prefix - Force exact match on single phrase |
Basic,Mail |
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Allows grouping of operators and helps dictate order |
Basic,Mail |
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Excludes a word from results |
Basic,Mail |
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Allows searching for a specific phrase - exact match search. Individual word prevents synonyms |
Basic,Mail |
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Boolean search function for OR searches as Google defaults to AND between words - must be all caps |
Basic,Mail |
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Allows you to search drive or mail for files modified or mail sent/received anytime after a set date |
Drive,Mail |
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Allows you to search drive or mail for files modified or mail sent/received before a certain date |
Drive,Mail |
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Searches only items that have been starred in drive |
Drive,Mail |
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Specify the sender in google mail |
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Specify the recipient in google mail |
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Search by a recipient that was copied into an email |
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Search by a recipient that was blind copied into an email |
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Search for messages older than a certain date |
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Search for messages newer than a certain date |
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for a message with a google sheet attached |
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for a message with a google presentation attached |
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Similar to the normal google search function, allows you to search for keywords near each other. |
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Search by keywords featured in the subject line |
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Use for OR in mail instead of the OR function |
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Search for messages that have a certain label |
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Search for messages that have an item attached |
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Search for messages with a google drive attached |
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Search for messages with a google doc attached |
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Search for a message containing a youtube video |
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Search for all messages from a particular mailing list |
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Includes all folders in your search, including spam and bin |
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Search for messages that have been marked as important |
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Same as is:important |
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Searches for messages that have been snoozed |
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Searches for unread messages |
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searches for read messages only |
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Searches for messages with coloured star icon |
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Searches for messages with colourd icon |
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Searches for messagse from chat |
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Search by email address for delivered messages |
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Searches by messages based on category. Follow the colon with the categoy name, i.e. category:primary |
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Messages larger than a certain size in bytes |
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Messages larger than a certain size in bytes |
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Messages smaller than a certain size in bytes |
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Search for messages that have custom user labels |
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Search for messages that have no custom user labels |
Some other useful search operators
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Pulls a card response from Google displaying the dictionary definition of the word or phrase |
Advanced |
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Returns the most up to date cache of an indexed web page |
Advanced |
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Brings up the featured snipped for weather for that location |
Advanced |
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Returns stock information for the specified ticker |
Advanced |
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Force google map results for a particular query |
Advanced |
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Find information for the specified movie (particularly useful when that movie has an ambiguous name). If the movie is still in theatres it’ll also return screen times |
Advanced |
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Use in google news, returns results from the specified source |
Advanced |
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Returns results for a specific location |
Advanced |
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As above but with Google news |
Advanced |
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Returns information related to a domain (pages with domain text, similar on-site pages, cache etc) |
Advanced |
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Part of the google maps lazy searches e.g. book shops near work |
Maps |
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