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Google Search Operators Cheat Sheet
Google Search Operators Cheat Sheet
| No. | Operator | What does it do? | Category | Deprecating? |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | “ ” | Allows searching for a specific phrase - exact match search. Individual word prevents synonyms | Basic, Mail | |
| 2 | OR | Boolean search function for OR searches as Google defaults to AND between words - must be all caps | Basic, Mail | |
| 3 | | | Implements OR | Basic | |
| 4 | () | Allows grouping of operators and helps dictate order | Basic, Mail | |
| 5 | - | Excludes a word from results | Basic, Mail | |
| 6 | * | Acts as a wildcard and will match any word or phrase | Basic | |
| 7 | #..# | # represents a number in this instance. Use to find numbers in a series. | Basic | |
| 8 | $ | Allows for search of USD | Basic | |
| 9 | € | Allows for search of Euro | Basic | |
| 10 | in | Allows searches for unit conversion (currency, unit or measure) | Basic | |
| 11 | ~ | Prefix - Include synonyms (potentially defunct) | Basic | |
| 12 | + | Prefix - Force exact match on single phrase | Basic, Mail | |
| 13 | daterange: | Return results in a specified range (requires julian dates) | Advanced | |
| 14 | link: | Find pages that link to the target domain | Advanced | |
| 15 | inanchor: | Find pages linked to with the specified anchor text/phrase. Data is heavily sampled. | Advanced | |
| 16 | allinanchor: | Find pages with all individual terms after “inanchor:” in the inbound anchor text. | Advanced | |
| 17 | inposttile: | Finds pages with keywords in their post titles (i.e. for researching blogs) | ||
| 18 | define: | Pulls a card response from Google displaying the dictionary definition of the word or phrase | Advanced | |
| 19 | cache: | Returns the most up to date cache of an indexed web page | Advanced | |
| 20 | filetype: | Returns only files of a particular type associated with the keyword searched | Advanced | |
| 21 | ext: | As above, based on extension | Advanced | |
| 22 | site: | Limit results to those from one site | Advanced | |
| 23 | related: | Find similar domains to the queried domain | Advanced | |
| 24 | intitle: | Returns pages based on the searched query appearing in their title | Advanced | |
| 25 | allintitle: | Similar to intitle: but only returns titles where all the words in the title match | Advanced | |
| 26 | inurl: | Only returns results where the queried keyword(s) is present in the URL | Advanced | |
| 27 | allinurl: | As above but only containing all of the specified words in the URL | Advanced | |
| 28 | intext: | Finds pages where the keyword(s) are mentioned within the page content. | Advanced | |
| 29 | allintext: | Similar to “intext,” but only results containing all of the specified words somewhere on the page will be returned. | Advanced | |
| 30 | AROUND(X) | This is sandwiched between two words and the X declares how many words they must be mentioned between. | Advanced | |
| 31 | weather: | Brings up the featured snipped for weather for that location | Advanced | |
| 32 | stocks: | Returns stock information for the specified ticker | Advanced | |
| 33 | map: | Force google map results for a particular query | Advanced | |
| 34 | movie: | Find information for the specified movie (particularly useful when that movie has an ambiguous name). If the movie is still in theatres it’ll also return screen times | Advanced | |
| 35 | source: | Use in google news, returns results from the specified source | Advanced | |
| 36 | _ | Acts as wildcard for autocomplete | Advanced | |
| 37 | blogurl: | Find blog URLs under a specific domain. This was used in Google blog search, but I’ve found it does return some results in regular search. | Advanced | |
| 38 | loc: | Returns results for a specific location | Advanced | |
| 39 | location: | As above but with Google news | Advanced | |
| 40 | info: | Returns information rlated to a domain (pages with dmain text, similar on-site pages, cache etc) | Advanced | |
| 41 | near | Part of the google maps lazy searches e.g. book shops near work | Maps | |
| 42 | Business type | E.g. cafe, restaurant, bar etc will return a selection of appropriate businesses in the are | Maps | |
| 43 | Petrol/Charging Station | EV near me or perol station near me returns | Maps | |
| 44 | type: | Allows you to search drive by file type | Drive | |
| 45 | owner: | Allows you to search drive by owner of file or folder | Drive | |
| 46 | after: | Allows you to search drive or mail for files modified or mail sent/received anytime after a set date | Drive, Mail | |
| 47 | before: | Allows you to search drive or mail for files modified or mail sent/received before a certain date | Drive, Mail | |
| 48 | to: | Allows you to search drive for files shared with a specific person | Drive | |
| 49 | title: | Searches drive for files with the keyword in their title alone | Drive | |
| 50 | source:domain | Allows you to search for files or folders shared with everyone in your business | Drive | |
| 51 | is:trashed | Searches for the item in the Drive bin | Drive | |
| 52 | is:starred | Searches only items that have been starred in drive | Drive, Mail | |
| 53 | from: | Specify the sender in google mail | ||
| 54 | to: | Specify the recipient in google mail | ||
| 55 | cc: | Search by a recipient that was copied into an email | ||
| 56 | bcc: | Search by a recipient that was blind copied into an email | ||
| 57 | subject: | Search by keywords featured in the subject line | ||
| 58 | {} | Use for OR in mail instead of the OR function | ||
| 59 | AROUND | Similar to the normal google search function, allows you to search for keywords near each other. | ||
| 60 | label: | Search for messages that have a certain label | ||
| 61 | has:attachment | Search for messages that have an item attached | ||
| 62 | has:drive | Search for messages with a google drive attached | ||
| 63 | has:document | Search for messages with a google doc attached | ||
| 64 | has:sheet | Search for a message with a google sheet attached | ||
| 65 | has:presentation | Search for a message with a google presentation attached | ||
| 66 | has:youtube | Search for a message containing a youtube video | ||
| 67 | list: | Search for all messages from a particular mailing list | ||
| 68 | filename: | Search for messages with a particular type of file attached, or the exact name of a file | ||
| 69 | in:anywhere | Includes all folders in your search, including spam and bin | ||
| 70 | is:important | Search for messages that have been marked as important | ||
| 71 | label:important | Same as is:important | ||
| 72 | is:snoozed | Searches for messages that have been snoozed | ||
| 73 | is:unread | Searches for unread messages | ||
| 74 | is:read | Searches for read messages only | ||
| 75 | has:yellow-star | Searches for messages with coloured star icon | ||
| 76 | has:blue-info | Searches for messages with coloured icon | ||
| 77 | older: | Search for messages older than a certain date | ||
| 78 | newer: | Search for messages newer than a certain date | ||
| 79 | is:chat | Searches for messages from chat | ||
| 80 | deliveredto: | Search by email address for delivered messages | ||
| 81 | category: | Searches by messages based on category. Follow the colon with the category name, i.e. category:primary | ||
| 82 | size: | Messages larger than a certain size in bytes | ||
| 83 | larger: | Messages larger than a certain size in bytes | ||
| 84 | smaller: | Messages smaller than a certain size in bytes | ||
| 85 | has:userlabels | Search for messages that have custom user labels | ||
| 86 | - | Search for messages that have no custom user labels |