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300 Best Boolean Strings: One Page Tip Sheet: Google Boolean Syntax
300 Best Boolean Strings: One Page Tip Sheet: Google Boolean Syntax
This tip sheet contains the most useful Google search operators and is part of the new e-book “300 Best Boolean Strings” by
Irina Shamaeva (January 2016).
Google’s Help provides a partial list of Google operators. See the references at the end of the tip sheet for alternative Google
search syntax descriptions.
Google Search Operators (written in lower case, then, colon; then, specific arguments, no space in-between)
site: (also called X-Raying) - Look for results from a given domain
[site:edu] search websites that end in EDU
[site:nih.gov] search the National Institute of Health website
[site:zoominfo.com/p] search for profile pages on Zoominfo
intitle: Search for keywords or phrases in the title of a web page (blue text in Google search results):
[intitle:"about us"] the phrase "About Us" must appear in the page title
[intitle:"member directory" bar association] adding keywords to intitle: search
inurl: Search for keywords or phrases in page URL’s (shown as green text in Google search results):
[inurl:careers] the word “careers” must appear in the URL
[inurl:resume quality assurance engineer automated tests in Perl -sample] adding keywords to inurl: search
intext: Search for keywords or phrases in the text of a web page (not in the title or URL).
[intext:gmail.com]
filetype: (can also be written as ext:) - search for a specified file type, such as PDF, DOC, TXT, or XLS:
[filetype:pdf] PDF files
[filetype:xls] (older versions), or [filetype:xlsx] (newer versions) Excel files
related: Find sites that are "similar" to the given site.
[related:target.com] (finds company competitors)
[related:pipl.com] (finds similar tools)
Alternative Google Tip Sheets
Advanced Power Searching Skills Quick Reference (slightly outdated; by Dan Russel of Google)