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Default
search:
All keywords as if connected by AND.
If all the words occur as a phrase, that page will rank higher.
Search
options:
Understands Boolean + -
and OR. Cannot be nested using
()
Use the * (Asterisk) as a Wildcard in a Phrase
Search, such as:
"Lord * * Flies"
"George * Bush"
(cannot be used for part of a word, such as "George Bu*")
To search within a site, use site: ie
admission site:www.stanford.edu
To find out who links to a site, use
link:www.sitename.com
Title search allintitle:searchenginez
, with the only variation allowed is the minus symbol, i.e.
allintitle:searchenginez -redesigned
URL search is the same, with minus symbols
allowed: allinurl:yahoo -shopping
File Type - to search for specific file
types, use filetype:pdf or filetype:txt
etc after your keyword(s).
Results:
Google ignores capitalization. Any page larger than 101k will
be listed as 101k (Google only indexes the first 100k of any
page).
Google indexes Acrobat (pdf), Microsoft Word (doc),
Rich Text (rtf), Text (txt), Excel (xls),
Postscript (ps) and PowerPoint (ppt) files.
Fresh: 3 million sites that Google deems
to be important are indexed on a daily basis. In the results,
the word Fresh! used to appear, but now just the date when
it was last indexed:
searchenginewatch.com/
- 24k - Fresh! 12 Dec
2001
Cached results: Google stores a copy
of each page, as it was when it was last indexed. This is
extremely useful for when a site is down. For web sites
with fast-changing content, such as news sites, the current
contents might be irrelevant. The page is rated on when
it was cached.
Extras: Google will respond with USA
phone directory listings when supplied with:
- first name (or first initial), last
name, area code
- first name (or first initial), last
name, zip code
- first name (or first initial), last
name, city (state is optional)
- first name (or first initial), last
name, state,
- phone number, including area code
- last name, city, state
- last name, zip
Google also responds to addresses with
links to maps. More
special features...
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