Help Yourself with Advanced Google Search Commands

Google Search Commands

As the most popular search engine on the web, Google search box has been overwhelmed with a lot of search terms and keywords. If it were a person it might have surrendered its job or complain. But inspite all of that, Google continues to do more and help searchers get the most relevant and get the best results out of their inputted terms.

            You might ask, how so? Well, aside from entering directly the exact keywords into the search box, you can do a little tweak.  Listed below are the additional characters or words that you can add to get the desired result.

·         “keywords”                                   It finds pages that has the exact match of the keywords

·         keyword+keyword+keyword         It finds pages that contains all the keywords in a single page

·         cache:<URL>                                 This displays how a page appears in Google’s local cache.

·         inanchor:<keyword>                     It finds pages that uses keyword as an anchor text

·         allinanchor:<keywords>                Same as the previous command for 2 or more keywords

·         intext:<keyword>                          It finds pages that has keyword as a content on the page

·         allintext:<keywords>                     Same as the previous command for 2 or more keywords

·         intitle: <keyword>                         It finds pages that contain the keyword as a title of documents

·         allintitle:<keywords>                    Same as the previous command for 2 or more keywords

·         inurl:<keyword>                            It finds pages that has the keyword on the pages’ URL

·         allinurl:<keywords>                      Same as the previous command for 2 or more keywords

·         site:<domain URL>                        It finds indexed pages of a site

·         site:<domain URL> <keyword>     It finds indexed pages of a site that contains the keyword.