Google Tips

A few things you might want to try with Google:

* This is an old one, but very important: Put quotes around phrases that must be searched together. If you put quotes
around "electric curtains," Google won't waste your time finding one set of Web pages containing the word "electric" and
another set containing the word "curtains."
* S imilarly, put a hyphen right before any word you want screened out. If you're looking up dolphins, for example, you'll
have to wade through a million Miami Dolphins pages unless you search for "dolphins - Miami."
* Google is a package tracker. Type a FedEx or UPS package number (just the digits); when you click Search, Google offers
a link to its tracking information.
* Google is a calculator. Type in an equation ("32+2345*3-234=").
* Google is a units-of-measurement converter. Type "teaspoons in a gallon," for example, or "centimeters in a foot."
* Google is a stock ticker. Type in AAPL or MSFT, for example, to see a link to the current Apple or Microsoft stock price,
graphs, financial news and so on.
* Google is an atlas. Type in an area code, like 212, to see a Mapquest map of the area.
* Google is an aviation buff. Type in a flight number like "United 22" for a link to a map of that flight's progress in the air.
Or type in the tail number you see on an airplane for the full registration form for that plane.
* Google is the Department of Motor Vehicles. Type in a VIN (vehicle identification number, which is etched onto a plate,
usually on the door frame, of every car), like "JH4NA1157MT001832," to find out the car's year, make and model.
* For hours of rainy-day entertainment, visit hxxp://labs.google.com . Here, you'll find links to new, half-finished Google
experiments-like Google Voice, in which you call (650) 623-6706 , speak the words you want to search for and then
open your browser to view the results. Disclaimer: It wasn't working when I tried it. (Ditto a lot of these experiments.)

Hand type the following prefixes and note their utility:

link:url Shows other pages with links to that url.

related:url same as "what's related" on serps.

site domain restricts search results to the given domain.

allinurl: shows only pages with all terms in the url.

inurl: like allinurl, but only for the next query word.

allintitle: shows only results with terms in title.

intitle: similar to allintitle, but only for the next word. "intitle:webmasterworld google" finds only pages with webmasterworld in the title, and google anywhere on the page.

cache:url will show the Google version of the passed url.

info:url will show a page containing links to related searches, backlinks, and pages containing the url. This is the same as typing the url into the search box.

spell: will spell check your query and search for it.

stocks: will lookup the search query in a stock index.

filetype: will restrict searches to that filetype. "-filetypedoc" to remove Microsoft word files.

daterange: is supported in Julian date format only. 2452384 is an example of a Julian date.

maps: If you enter a street address, a link to Yahoo Maps and to MapBlast will be presented.

phone: enter anything that looks like a phone number to have a name and address displayed. Same is true for something that looks like an address (include a name and zip code)

site:Welcome to SomeSite.Net ! "+www.somesite.+net"
(tells you how many pages of your site are indexed by google)

allintext: searches only within text of pages, but not in the links or page title

allinlinks: searches only within links, not text or title