Searching the web with Google - how to do the search better...

[Lyra]

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It is often forgotten - including by me -
how a better search can be done by using "advanced search".

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http://www.google.com/help/refinesearch.html

describes it all

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http://www.google.com/advanced_search

is the advanced search page

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http://www.google.com/intl/en/help/operators.html

describes query modifiers,

e.g.

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(quote)

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site:

If you include [site:] in your query, Google will restrict the results
to those websites in the given domain. For instance, [help
site:www.google.com] will find pages about help within www.google.com.
[help site:com] will find pages about help within .com urls. Note
there can be no space between the "site:" and the domain.

allintitle:

If you start a query with [allintitle:], Google will restrict the
results to those with all of the query words in the title. For
instance, [allintitle: google search] will return only documents that
have both "google" and "search" in the title.

intitle:

If you include [intitle:] in your query, Google will restrict the
results to documents containing that word in the title. For instance,
[intitle:google search] will return documents that mention the word
"google" in their title, and mention the word "search" anywhere in the
document (title or no). Note there can be no space between the
"intitle:" and the following word.

allinurl:

If you start a query with [allinurl:], Google will restrict the
results to those with all of the query words in the url. For instance,
[allinurl: google search] will return only documents that have both
"google" and "search" in the url.

Note that [allinurl:] works on words, not url components. In
particular, it ignores punctuation. Thus, [allinurl: foo/bar] will
restrict the results to page with the words "foo" and "bar" in the
url, but won't require that they be separated by a slash within that
url, that they be adjacent, or that they be in that particular word
order.

inurl:

If you include [inurl:] in your query, Google will restrict the
results to documents containing that word in the url. For instance,
[inurl:google search] will return documents that mention the word
"google" in their url, and mention the word "search" anywhere in the
document (url or no). Note there can be no space between the "inurl:"
and the following word.

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