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Google search may be easy, but if you know these google search tips you have more chances to quickly reach to the exact query you want to search...
Google search is a most powerful tool to collate data from the World Wide Web (WWW). Most people use random keywords to get the deisred results, but this is more of a general search. If you wish to master your search, you need to know some important keywords that act as Google operators. These operators save a lot of your time and avoids a list of unnecessary results. I have listed few Operators below.

site:
restricts the results to specific domain. site:http://parasitech.blogspot.com will find all indexed page on http://parasitech.blogspot.com/, while site:http://parasitech.blogspot.com tricks will find all tricks-related pages on http://parasitech.blogspot.com/

cache:
shows the cached version of given webpage. Other keywords in the query will be highlighted in the returned page, try cache:http://parasitech.blogspot.com/ tricks

filetype:
returns links to documents with the given file type.
For example searching for ebook filetype:pdf will try and find file name ebook.pdf across web.
This search supports file types like mp3, pdf, ps, wk1, wk2, wk3, wk4, wk5, wki, wks, wku, lwp, mw, xls, ppt, doc, wks, wps, wdb, wri, rtf, swf, ans, txt, xml, cpp, java and many more.

link:
lists webpages that link to the given webpage. Eg. link:http://parasitech.blogspot.com/ will list webpages with links pointing to http://parasitech.blogspot.com/

related:
returns pages that google thinks are related to the given page. This is not always accurate. You can try related:http://parasitech.blogspot.com/

info:
returns some informations about the given web page. Typically website and description.

define:
returns the definition of a given word. Eg. define:nincompoop (You will get the meaning, if you dont already know it :)

phonebook:
search in residential phone book. sample: phonebook:smith Los Angeles.

stocks:
returns stock info: try stocks:goog

weather:
weather informations for the given city. weather:mumbai

movie:
returns all movies related to the search term given. Sample: movie:Love Sex Aur Dhoka
You can also find movies by locations: movie:mumbai, movie:Love Sex Aur Dhoka

flights
you can search for flights inside USA using the airport code (does not work for every airport). sample: jfk lax



SEO-oriented Operators

allintitle:
Search for documents with the given words in their title. allintitle:parasitech trick will find all the documents with title containing ‘parasitech’ and ‘trick’. This operator cannot be combined with others.

intitle:
Search for documents with the first word after the intitle operator in their title. intitle:parasitech trick will find all the documents with title containing ‘parasitech’ and talking about trick. Note that the word ‘trick’ is not necessarily in the title.

allintext:
Search for documents with the given words in their text. allintext:parasitech trick will find all the documents with text containing ‘parasitech’ and ‘trick’.This operator cannot be combined with others.

intext:
Search for documents with the first word after the intext operator in their text. intext:parasitech trick will find all the documents with text containing ‘parasitech’ and talking about trick. Note that the word ‘trick’ is not necessarily in the text

allinurl:
Search for documents with the given words in their url. allinurl:parasitech trick will find all the documents with url containing ‘parasitech’ and ‘trick’. This operator cannot be combined with others.

inurl:
Search for documents with the first word after the inurl operator in their url. inurl:parasitech trick will find all the documents with url containing ‘parasitech’ and talking about trick. Note that the word ‘trick’ is not necessarily in the text

allinanchor:
Search for documents with the given words in an anchor. allinurl:parasitech trick will find all the documents with anchor text containing ‘parasitech’ and ‘trick’. This operator cannot be combined with others.

inanchor:
Search for documents with the first word after the operator in an anchor. inanchor:parasitech trick will find all the documents with anchor containing ‘parasitech’ and talking about trick. Note that the word ‘trick’ is not necessarily in an anchor.