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Google Search Shortcuts

Google URL in its most basic form: http://www.google.co.uk/search?&q=keyword

Google uses Unicode UTF-8 to encode the query string.

• &q=YOURQUERY
  
• &as_qdr=d (filter by date, drop down menu will appear: d | m3 | m6 | y)
  
• &as_occt=any (filter by where words appear on page: any | title | body | url | links)
  
• &num=2 (filter number of results you see per page)
  
• as_sitesearch=youtube.com (restrict results from specific site)
  

See Also: Advanced Google Operators

Language

• define:keyword | definition of word
• ~keyword | search for the word and its synonyms
• + other standard boolean operators

Calculator

• + - ^ /
• multiply is not indicated by the asterisk because it stands for undefined space between keywords. so searching for "tasty * jam" will return "tasty tomato jam", "tasty strawberry jam", "tasty traffic jam", etc.

Conversion

oldunit in newunits. example of a query: "5 GBP in SGD"

• currency: GBP SGD RMB USD
• weight: kg pound
• liquid: ml litre pint quart
• cloth: yard m
• percentage: %

Specific search

• site:.sg “keyword” | specific/country domain
• filetype:mp3 "keyword" | fileformat
• related:url | related pages
• link:url | linked pages
• site:url | search only within the site
• info:url | information about pages
• cache:url | view cached page
  

you can also do text searches for keywords only in the titles of pages (allintitle:), keywords only in the body text (intext:, allintext:), keywords in books (book), searches for websafe items (safesearch:). other things less likely to be used are phone numbers (phonebook:), business phone numbers (bphonebook:), residental phone numbers (rphonebook:), movie times (movie:), stock quotes (stock:) and the weather (weather:)

Google Searchwiki

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See also

• Gmail
• Google Adwords
• Google Analytics