Part – II

The Special Syntaxes for Google Search

In addition to the basic AND, OR and quoted string, Google offers some rather extensive special syntaxes for honing your searches. Google being a full- text search engine, it indexes entire web pages instead of just titles and descriptions. Additional commands, called special syntaxes, let Google users search specific parts of web pages or specific types of information.

intitle:

intitle: restricts your search to the titles of web pages. The variation, allintitle: finds pages wherein al the words specified makes up the title of the web page.

intitle:“sachin tendulkar”

allintitle:”money supply” economics

inurl:

inurl : restricts your search to the URLs of web pages. This syntax tends to work well for finding search and help pages, because they tend to be rather regular composition. An allinurl: variation finds all the words listed in a URL.

inurl:help

allinurl:search help

intext:

intext: searches only body text (i.e., ignores link text, URLs and titles). There’s as allintext : variation, but again this doesn’t play well with others.

intext:”google.com”

allitextl:html

inanchor:

inanchor: searches for text in a page’s link anchors. A link anchor is the descriptive text of a link. For example, the link anchor in the HTML code <a href=http://www.smarthelpinghands.com/blog/>Smart Helping Hands Blog</a> is “Smart Helping Hands Blog”

inanchor: “Smart Helping Hands Blog”

site:

site: allows you to narrow your search by either a site or a top level domain.

site:loc.gov

site:smarthelpinghands.com

Link:

Link: returns a list of pages linking to the specified URL. Enter link:www.smarthelpinghands.com and you’ll be returned a list of pages that link to Google. Link: works just as well with deep URLs like - http://www.smarthelpinghands.com/blog/google-offer-custom-domain-for-your-blog/

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