| Search |
Description |
| cat
dog |
Search results have the word cat and the word dog
in them. They could also have cats and dogs. |
| +cat |
Search results have the word cat in them. If the search results has the word cats then it will not be included. The plus sign indicates an exact match and not to use synonyms, hypernyms or hyponyms or any other form of the word. |
| mp3 "take five" |
Search results have the word mp3 and the exact phrase take
five in them. |
| "john smith" -"bob dole" |
Search results have the phrase john smith but NOT the
phrase bob dole in them. |
| bmx -game |
Search results have the word bmx but not game. |
| inurl:edu title:university |
Search results have university in their title and edu
in their url. |
| site:www.ibm.com "big blue" |
Search results are from the site www.ibm.com and have the phrase
big blue in them. |
| url:www.yahoo.com |
Search result is the single URL www.yahoo.com, if it is indexed. |
| title:"the
news" -"weather report" |
Search results have the phrase the news in their title,
and do NOT have the phrase weather report anywhere in their
content. |
| ip:216.32.120 |
Search results are from the the ip 216.32.120.*. |
| type:pdf nutrition |
Search results are PDF (Portable Document Format) documents that
contain the word nutrition. |
| type:doc |
Search results are Microsoft Word documents. |
| type:xls |
Search results are Microsoft Excel documents. |
| type:ppt |
Search results are Microsoft Power Point documents. |
| type:ps |
Search results are Postscript documents. |
| type:text |
Search results are plain text documents. |
| filetype:pdf |
Search results are PDF documents. |
| link:www.yahoo.com |
All the pages that link to www.yahoo.com. |
| sitelink:www.yahoo.com |
All the pages that link to any page on www.yahoo.com. |
| ext:txt |
All the pages whose url ends in the .txt extension. |
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