| Default search type |
Searches for all of your words |
| Case sensitive? |
No |
| Wildcard/Truncation |
Automatically stems and looks for variations of your
search terms. |
| Phrases and proximity |
"……" For example "building
society"
Asterisk * can be used to stand in for one or more words
within a phrase. |
| Mandatory search terms |
Plus sign (+) before stop words such as "the",
"of", "in" for example "accidents
+in +the home".
Also use the plus sign before a word to stop Google automatically
stemming it. |
| Exclude pages containing a term |
Minus sign (-) before the word, for example
branson -balloon |
| Word in the URL |
inurl: for
pages with the term in their URL, for example inurl:chocolate
allinurl: for pages that
contain all of your terms in the URL |
| Word in title |
intitle: for
pages that contain the adjacent word in the title, for example intitle:eiger
allintitle: for pages that contain all of your terms
in the title |
| Linked pages |
link:
for pages that link to a known URL, for example
link:www.rba.co.uk |
| Similar pages |
related:
for related or similar pages, for example related:www.rba.co.uk
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| Limit by domain/site |
site:
for results from a particular type of domain, for example site:.ac.uk
for academic sites in the UK or to search one specific web site,
for example site:statistics.gov.uk
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| File type |
filetype:
to specify a non-html document, for example filetype:pdf
File types supported include PDF, Word, RTF, Excel, PowerPoint,
Postscript, WordPerfect
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| Cached copy available |
Yes. Can be viewed from the results list.
To search for a particular cached page use cache:
for example cache:www.rba.co.uk
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| Boolean search |
OR - must be in capital letters |
| Specify language |
Yes - in Advanced Search |
| Limit by country |
Country versions of Google. |
| Limit by date |
Yes - in Advanced Search |
| Unique features |
Numeric range search. Syntax is 1st
number..2nd number units of measurement, for example
1..5 kg
Synonym search - precede your term with a tilde (~) to automatically
search for synonyms
define: searches for
definitions of terms and abbreviations in online dictionaries
and glossaries
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