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* Google search query syntax.

  http://www.google.com/support/websearch/bin/answer.py?answer=136861

                Google search basics: More search help

  http://code.google.com/intl/ru/apis/soapsearch/reference.html

                Google SOAP Search API Reference

  http://www.google.com/cse/docs/resultsxml.html

                Google WebSearch Protocol Reference for Google Site Search

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Search

** Phrase Search.

Use double quotes to search exactly mutch of string. Words marked in this way will appear together

in all results exactly as entered.

  "WORD1 WORD2 WORD3"

Note: You may need to use a "+" to force inclusion of common words in a phrase.

** Boolean OR Search.

"OR" capital is essential.

  WORD1 OR WORD2

Remove site from search by "-site:"

  WORD1 WORD2 -site:ebay.com -site:shopping.com

** Include query term (search exactly as is).

If a common word is essential to getting the results you want, you can include it by putting a "+"

sign in front of it.

 +WORD WORD1 WORD2

** Exclude query term.

You can exclude a word from your search by putting a minus sign ("-") immediately in front of the

term you want to exclude from the search results.

  WORD1 WORD2 -WORD

** Fill in the blanks.

  GNU *

  Mozilla *

** Site Restricted Search.

  site:example.com WORD1 WORD2

  site:.gov WORD

** Cached Results Page.

The query prefix "cache:" returns the cached HTML version of the specified web document that the

Google search crawled. Note there can be no space between "cache:" and the web page URL. If you

include other words in the query, Google will highlight those words within the cached document.

  cache:www.google.com

Use Google as a free proxy (if direct access bloked): cache:example.com

** Title Search.

Restricts the results to those with all of the query words in the title.

  intitle:WORD1 intitle:WORD2 WORD3

  allintitle:WORD1 WORD2

Note: Putting "intitle:" in front of every word in your query is equivalent to putting "allintitle:"

at the front of your query.

** URL Search.

If you prepend "inurl:" to a query term, Google search restricts the results to documents containing

that word in the result URL. Note there can be no space between the "inurl:" and the following word.

Starting a query with the term "allinlinks:" restricts the results to those with all of the query

words in the URL links on the page.

  inurl:WORD1 inurl:WORD2 WORD

  allinurl: WORD1 WORD2

Note: "inurl:" works only on words, not URL components. In particular, it ignores punctuation and

uses only the first word following the "inurl:" operator. To find multiple words in a result URL,

use the "inurl:" operator for each word.

Note: Putting "inurl:" in front of every word in your query is equivalent to putting "allinurl:" at

the front of your query.

** Text Only Search.

Starting a query with the term "allintext:" restricts the results to those with all of the query

words in only the body text, ignoring link, URL, and title matches.

  allintext: WORD1 WORD2

** File Type Filtering.

The query prefix "filetype:" filters the results returned to include only documents with the

extension specified immediately after. Note there can be no space between "filetype:" and the

specified extension.

  WORD filetype:doc OR filetype:pdf

** File Type Exclusion.

The query prefix "-filetype:" filters the results to exclude documents with the extension specified

immediately after. Note there can be no space between "-filetype:" and the specified extension.

  WORD -filetype:doc -filetype:pdf

** Web Document Info.

The query prefix "info:" returns a single result for the specified URL if it exists in the index.

  info:www.google.com

Note: No other query terms can be specified when using this special query term.

** Back Links.

The query prefix "link:" lists web pages that have links to the specified web page.

  link:www.google.com

Note: there can be no space between "link:" and the web page URL.

Note: No other query terms can be specified when using this special query term.

** Related Links.

Lists web pages that are similar to the specified web page.

  related:www.google.com

Note: there can be no space between "related:" and the web page URL.

Note: No other query terms can be specified when using this special query term.

** Word definition.

The query prefix "define:" will provide a definition of the words listed after it.

  define:WORD