- Publish date: Limit results according to when they were published on the Web
- Verbatim: Search for exact words or phrases
- Dictionary :Find definitions, synonyms, images, and more for your search term
- Private: If you're signed in to your Google Account, you can see content that was shared with you on Google+ or Gmail
- Nearby: See results for your current location
- Videos: Filter by length of video, quality, and source, like youtube.com
- Recipes: Filter by ingredients, cook time, and calories
- Applications: Choose the price and operating system, or OS, for available apps
- Patents: Select a patent's filing or publishing date, the patent office it was filed in, filing status, and type
- Size: Pick among large, medium, or icon, or set the exact dimensions
- Color: Find images of a certain color, black and white, or transparent
- Type: Only see images that are faces, photos, clip art, line drawings, or animated GIFs
- Time: Find a photo that was recently published, or published on a certain date
- Usage rights: See photos that you can reuse or modify
- Free to use or share: Allows you to copy or redistribute its content if the content remains unchanged.
- Free to use share or modify: Allows you to copy, modify, or redistribute in ways specified in the license.
- Commercially: If you want content for commercial use, be sure to select an option that includes the word "commercially."
- "@" in front of a word: search social media, e.g.: @twitter
- "$", "€" in front of a number: saerch for price, e.g.: camera $400
- "#" in front of a word: search hashtags, e.g.: #throwbackthursday
- "-" in front of a word: exlude it from search, e.g. jaguar speed -car
- phrase inside quotes: search for an exact match, e.g. "tallest building"
- "*" in your word or phrase: search for wildcards or unknown words, e.g. "largest * in the world"
- ".." between two numbers: search within a range of numbers, e.g. camera $50..$100
- "OR" or "|" between each search query: combine searches, e.g. marathon OR race
- "site:" in front of a site: search for a specific site, e.g. site:youtube.com or site:some.site.com/dir1/dir2
- "related:" in front of a site: search for related sites, e.g. related:time.com
- "info:" in front of the site: get details about a site
- "cache:" in front of the site: see Google’s cached version of a site
- "()" to group expressions: controll order of execution (tesla OR edison) alternating current
- "in" between terms: make conversion, e.g. 250 kph in mph
AROUND(X) tesla AROUND(3) edison: gives results where the two terms/phrases are within (X) words of each other.- allinpostauthor: (and also inpostauthor:) :
allinpostauthor:John Wane: for blog search written by specific individuals - allintext:
allintext: orbi eero google wifi: Search the body text for every individual term following "allintext:". Same as multiple intexts:'s. - allintitle:
allintitle: tesla vs edison: Search the page title for every individual term following "allintitle:". Same as multiple intitle:'s. - allinurl:
allinurl: amazon field-keywords nikon: Search the URL for every individual term following "allinurl:". Same as multiple inurl:'s. - define:phrase :
define:ululate: it will bring back definitions from different websites, from Wiktionary to encyclopedia.com. - filetype:
"tesla announcements" filetype:pdf: Match only a specific file type. Some examples include PDF, DOC, XLS, PPT, and TXT. - intext:
intext:"orbi vs eero vs google wifi": Search for a word or phrase (in quotes), but only in the body/document text. - intitle:
intitle:"tesla vs edison": Search only in the page's title for a word or phrase. Use exact-match (quotes) for phrases. - inurl:
tesla announcements inurl:2016: Look for a word or phrase (in quotes) in the document URL. Can combine with other terms. - loc:placename :
pub loc:London: brings back results from pages in a given place - location:
location:London: news operator that allows you to search for articles by location - map: Adding the word map after a locational search forces Google to produce map-based results.
- movie:
movie:Iron Man 2 London: Google will tell you where you can see the film and at what time. This operator can also be used in conjunction with the aforementioned “loc:” - phonebook:
phonebook:john smith: You’ll be given a worrying list of phone numbers for people called John Smith. - source:
Gordon Brown source:the_guardian: Google will show all the mentions of Gordon Brown in articles where The Guardian is identified as the news source. - stocks:
stocks:BAC: tracks the stock price of investment portfolio - weather:
weather:brighton: results for Brighton pages on weather websites, as well as a little weather widget at the top of the results page.
Use google cache for this, e.g.
Use google to check intrest and geolocations of searches