Google Advanced Search Operators

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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


Peter has been active on the C# and other MS newsgroups, has had samples at gotdotnet.com (now codegallery.com) that have been downloaded over 56,000 times, and has written numerous articles for eggheadcafe.com, for which he is a co-founder, and MSDNAA sites. He has also been a technical reviewer on books from Prentice Hall, Manning and other publishers. Peter was a Microsoft MVP for 10 years. Peter was born and raised in New York City, and after a stint as a jazz musician playing contrabass with the Robert Hunt Trio, migrated to sunny Florida, where he was hired as a rookie Financial Consultant at Merrill Lynch in Orlando, specializing in Corporate Services. It was at Merrill that Peter realized computers and technology were his forte. He spent his last few years at Merrill developing real – time computerized trading and and stock charting program using advanced technical analysis indicators, some of which are his own inventions. In 1997, he moved on to architect and serve as lead developer on a number of innovative web-based and middleware solutions for the healthcare and financial services industry.

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