Google Advanced Search Operators


Code

Description

Where

""

Allows searching for a specific phrase - exact match search. Individual word prevents synonyms

Basic,Mail

OR/AND

Boolean search function for OR searches as Google defaults to AND between words - must be all caps

Basic,Mail

\

Implements OR

Basic

()

Allows grouping of operators and helps dictate order

Basic,Mail

-

Excludes a word from results

Basic,Mail

*

Acts as a wildcard and will match any word or phrase

Basic

#..#

# represents a number in this instance. Use to find numbers in a series.

Basic

$

Allows for search of USD

Basic

Allows for search of Euro

Basic

in

Allows searches for unit conversion (currency, un.  it or measure)

Basic

~

Prefix - Include synonyms (potentially defunct)

Basic

+

Prefix - Force exact match on single phrase

Basic,Mail

AROUND(X)

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

_

Acts as wildcard for autocomplete

Advanced

Search with url

inurl:

Only returns results where the queried keyword(s) is present in the URL

Advanced

allinurl:

As above but only containing all of the specified words in the URL

Advanced

blogurl:

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

site:

Limit results to those from one site

Advanced

related:

Find similar domains to the queried domain

Advanced

Search with dates

daterange:

Return results in a specified range (requires julian dates)

Advanced

after:

Allows you to search drive or mail for files modified or mail sent/received anytime after a set date

Drive,Mail

before:

Allows you to search drive or mail for files modified or mail sent/received before a certain date

Drive,Mail

older:

Search for messages older than a certain date

Mail

newer:

Search for messages newer than a certain date

Mail

Search files

filename:

Search for messages with a particular type of file attached, or the exact name of a file

Mail

type:

Allows you to search drive by file type

Drive

owner:

Allows you to search drive by owner of file or folder

Drive

to:

Allows you to search drive for files shared with a specific person

Drive

title:

Searches drive for files with the keyword in their title alone

Drive

source:domain

Allows you to search for files or folders shared with everyone in your business

Drive

filetype:

Returns only files of a particular type associated with the keyword searched

Advanced

ext:

As above, based on extension

Advanced

after:

Allows you to search drive or mail for files modified or mail sent/received anytime after a set date

Drive,Mail

before:

Allows you to search drive or mail for files modified or mail sent/received before a certain date

Drive,Mail

is:trashed

Searches for the item in the Drive bin

Drive

Search with page content

link:

Find pages that link to the target domain

Advanced

inanchor:

Find pages linked to with the specified anchor text/ phrase. Data is heavily sampled.

Advanced

allinanchor:

Find pages with all individual terms after "inanchor:" in the inbound anchor text.

Advanced

intitle:

Returns pages based on the searched query appearing in their title

Advanced

allintitle:

Similar to intitle: but only returns titles where all the words in the title match

Advanced

inposttile:

Finds pages with keywords in their post titles (i.e. for researching blogs)

 

intext:

Finds pages where the keyword(s) are mentioned within the page content.

Advanced

allintext:

Similar to “intext,” but only results containing all of the specified words somewhere on the page will be returned.

Advanced

Keywords

Business

type E.g. cafe, restaurant, bar etc will return a selection of appropriate businesses in the are

Maps

Petrol/Charging

Station EV near me or perol station near me returns

Maps

Search

for a message with a google sheet attached

Mail

Search

for a message with a google presentation attached

Mail

Search on emails

+

Prefix - Force exact match on single phrase

Basic,Mail

()

Allows grouping of operators and helps dictate order

Basic,Mail

-

Excludes a word from results

Basic,Mail

""

Allows searching for a specific phrase - exact match search. Individual word prevents synonyms

Basic,Mail

OR/AND

Boolean search function for OR searches as Google defaults to AND between words - must be all caps

Basic,Mail

after:

Allows you to search drive or mail for files modified or mail sent/received anytime after a set date

Drive,Mail

before:

Allows you to search drive or mail for files modified or mail sent/received before a certain date

Drive,Mail

is:starred

Searches only items that have been starred in drive

Drive,Mail

from:

Specify the sender in google mail

Mail

to:

Specify the recipient in google mail

Mail

cc:

Search by a recipient that was copied into an email

Mail

bcc:

Search by a recipient that was blind copied into an email

Mail

older:

Search for messages older than a certain date

Mail

newer:

Search for messages newer than a certain date

Mail

Search

for a message with a google sheet attached

Mail

Search

for a message with a google presentation attached

Mail

AROUND

Similar to the normal google search function, allows you to search for keywords near each other.

Mail

subject:

Search by keywords featured in the subject line

Mail

{}

Use for OR in mail instead of the OR function

Mail

label:

Search for messages that have a certain label

Mail

has:attachment

Search for messages that have an item attached

Mail

has:drive

Search for messages with a google drive attached

Mail

has:document

Search for messages with a google doc attached

Mail

has:youtube

Search for a message containing a youtube video

Mail

list:

Search for all messages from a particular mailing list

Mail

in:anywhere

Includes all folders in your search, including spam and bin

Mail

is:important

Search for messages that have been marked as important

Mail

label:important

Same as is:important

Mail

is:snoozed

Searches for messages that have been snoozed

Mail

is:unread

Searches for unread messages

Mail

is:read

searches for read messages only

Mail

has:yellow-star

Searches for messages with coloured star icon

Mail

has:blue-info

Searches for messages with colourd icon

Mail

is:chat

Searches for messagse from chat

Mail

deliveredto:

Search by email address for delivered messages

Mail

category:

Searches by messages based on category. Follow the colon with the categoy name, i.e. category:primary

Mail

size:

Messages larger than a certain size in bytes

Mail

larger:

Messages larger than a certain size in bytes

Mail

smaller:

Messages smaller than a certain size in bytes

Mail

has:userlabels

Search for messages that have custom user labels

Mail

Search for messages that have no custom user labels

Mail

Some other useful search operators

define:

Pulls a card response from Google displaying the dictionary definition of the word or phrase

Advanced

cache:

Returns the most up to date cache of an indexed web page

Advanced

weather:

Brings up the featured snipped for weather for that location

Advanced

stocks:

Returns stock information for the specified ticker

Advanced

map:

Force google map results for a particular query

Advanced

movie:

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

source:

Use in google news, returns results from the specified source

Advanced

loc:

Returns results for a specific location

Advanced

location:

As above but with Google news

Advanced

info:

Returns information related to a domain (pages with domain text, similar on-site pages, cache etc)

Advanced

near

Part of the google maps lazy searches e.g. book shops near work

Maps


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