﻿{"id":309,"date":"2012-03-01T02:55:00","date_gmt":"2012-03-01T02:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chayilyam.com\/stories\/?p=309"},"modified":"2017-03-01T05:35:54","modified_gmt":"2017-03-01T05:35:54","slug":"useful-google-operators","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chayilyam.com\/stories\/useful-google-operators\/","title":{"rendered":"Useful Google Operators"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left;\" trbidi=\"on\">\n<div style=\"-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 22px; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;\"><b>Useful Google Operators<\/b><br \/>Google has several operators that can help you find specific information, specific websites or inquire about the indexing of your own site, below you will find the most important ones:<\/div>\n<div style=\"-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 22px; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 22px; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;\"><b>define:<\/b> \u2013 This operator will find definitions for a certain term or word over the Internet. Very useful when you come across a strange word when writing a post. (i.e. <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/zD07H0\" target=\"_blank\"><b>define: opportunity<\/b><\/a> ).<\/div>\n<div style=\"-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 22px; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 22px; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;\"><b>info:<\/b> \u2013 The info operator will list the sets of information that Google has from a specific website (i.e. <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/A5vLgZ\" target=\"_blank\"><b>info:www.chayilyam.com<\/b><\/a> )<\/div>\n<div style=\"-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 22px; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 22px; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;\"><b>site:<\/b> \u2013 This operator can be used to see the number of indexed pages on your site (i.e. site:www.yoursite.com). Alternative it can also be used to search for information inside a specific site or class of sites. (i.e. <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/yrApoO\" target=\"_blank\"><b>\u0d24\u0d46\u0d2f\u0d4d\u0d2f\u0d02 site:chayilyam.com<\/b><\/a> will search for the term <b>\u0d24\u0d46\u0d2f\u0d4d\u0d2f\u0d02 <\/b>inside in chayilyam.com).<\/div>\n<div style=\"-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 22px; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 22px; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;\"><b>link:<\/b> \u2013 The link operator allows you to find backlinks pointing to your site. Unfortunately the count is not updated frequently and not all backlinks are shown (arguably because Google does not want to reveal details about its search algorithm).<\/div>\n<div style=\"-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 22px; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 22px; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;\"><b>allinurl:<\/b> \u2013 Using this operator will limit the search to results that contain the desired keywords on the URL structure. (i.e. <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/zQNIpJ\" target=\"_blank\"><b>allinurl:wikipedia<\/b><\/a> )<\/div>\n<div style=\"-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 22px; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 22px; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;\"><b>fileformat:<\/b> \u2013 Useful operator for findind specific file formats. Sometimes you know that the information you are looking for is likely to be contained in a PDF document or on a PowerPoint presentation, for instance. (i.e. <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/yogbLg\" target=\"_blank\"><b>fileformat:.pdf ramayana<\/b><\/a> will search for PDF documents that contain the terms &#8220;<b>ramayana<\/b>\u201d)<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Useful Google OperatorsGoogle has several operators that can help you find specific information, specific websites or inquire about the indexing of your own site, below you will find the most important ones: define: \u2013 This operator will find definitions for a certain term or word over the Internet. 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