cache:
The search engine keeps the
text of the many documents it crawls available in a backed-up format known
as "cache." A cached version of a web page can be retrieved if the original
page is unavailable (for example, the page's server is down). The cached
page appears exactly as it looked when the crawler last crawled it and
includes a message (at the top of the page) to indicate that it's a cached
version of the page.
The query [cache:] shows the cached version of the web page. For
instance, [cache:www.google.com] shows the cached page of Google's
homepage.
Note: There can be no space between cache: and the web
page URL in the query.
If you include other words in the query, those words will be highlighted
within the cached document. For instance, [cache:www.google.com press
releases] shows the cached content with the words "press" and
"releases" highlighted.
info:
The query [info:] returns all information
available for that particular URL. For instance,
[info:www.google.com] shows information about the Google homepage.
Note there can be no space between the info: and the web page URL.
site:
If you include [site:] in your query, the
results are restricted to those websites in the given domain. For instance,
[help site:www.google.com] finds pages about help within
www.google.com. [help site:com] finds pages about help
within .com URLs.
Note: There can be no space between the "site:" and the
domain.
link:
The query [link:] enables you to restrict your
search to all pages that link to the query page. To do this, use the
[link:sampledomain.com] syntax in the search box. No other query
terms can be specified when using this special query term.
For example, to find all links to Stanford's main page, enter:
allintitle:
If you start a query with [allintitle:],
the results are restricted to documents with all of the query words in the
document's HTML title. For example, [allintitle: google search]
only returns documents that have both "google" and "search" in the HTML
title.
intitle:
If you include [intitle:] in your query, the
search is restricted to results with documents containing that word in the
HTML title. For example, [intitle:google search] returns documents
that mention the word "google" in their HTML title, and mention the word
"search" anywhere in the document either in the title or anywhere else in
the document.
Note: There can be no space between the "intitle:" and the
following word.
Putting [intitle:] in front of every word in your query is
equivalent to putting [allintitle:] at the front of your query. For
example, [intitle:google intitle:search] is the same as
[allintitle: google search].
allinurl:
If you start a query with [allinurl:], the
search is restricted to results with all of the query words in the URL. For
example, [allinurl: google search] returns only documents that have
both "google" and "search" in the URL.
Note: [allinurl:] works on words, not URL components. In
particular, it ignores punctuation. Thus, [allinurl: foo/bar]
restricts the results to page with the words "foo" and "bar" in the URL, but
doesn'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. There is
currently no way to enforce these constraints.
inurl:
If you include [inurl:] in your query, the
results are restricted to documents containing that word in the URL. For
example, [inurl:google search] returns documents that mention the
word "google" in their URL and mention the word "search" anywhere in the
document either in the URL or anywhere else in the document.
Note: There can be no space between the "inurl:" and the following
word.
Note: [inurl:] works on words, not URL components. In
particular, it ignores punctuation. Thus, in the query [google
inurl:foo/bar], the inurl: operator affects only the word
"foo," which is the single word following the inurl: operator, and
does not affect the word "bar." The query [google inurl:foo
inurl:bar] can be used to require both "foo" and "bar" to be in the
URL.
Putting [inurl:] in front of every word in your query is
equivalent to putting [allinurl:] at the front of your query. For
example, [inurl:google inurl:search] is the same as [allinurl:
google search].