Google allows many parameters to fine-tune our searches in every product: Google Search, Google Mail, Google Drive, Google Images…
We will refer to search term or simply term to every keyword that we introduce in a search. It can be a single word or a sentence.
Some of these parameters are:
| Parameter | What does it do? | Example |
| “search term” | When we put a sentence between quotation marks, we convert the whole sentence in a search term. This way, Google will show only the results that contain the exact sentence in the proper order. | “Hello, how are you?”
Shows results containing the exact sentence. |
| – (minus) | In front of a term, Google will remove every result that contains it. | cars -mercedes -bmw
Shows the results containing the term “cars” but not the terms “Mercedes” and “bmw”. |
| site: | Google will show all of the results that exist inside of that website | site:http://reddit.com
Shows only results coming from reddit.com |
| intitle: | Shows the results containing the term in the title of the website. | intitle:wireless home
Shows the results containing the term “wireless” in the title, but may contain “home” in other parts (the URL or the page content). |
| allintitle: | Shows the results containing all of the terms in the title of the website. | allintitle:wireless home
Shows the results containing the terms “wireless” and “home” in the title of the page. |
| inurl: | Shows the results containing the term in the URL of the website.
As with intitle, allinurl exists. |
inurl:camera online
Shows the results containing the term “camera” in the URL, but may contain “online” in other parts. |
| intext: | Shows the results containing the term in the page content.
As with intitle, allintext exists. |
intext:secure wifi
Shows the results containing the term “secure” in the page content, but may contain “wifi” in other parts (URL or title). |
| filetype: | Filters the results by the type of the file. Very useful to find PDF or Word documents. | moodle guide filetype:pdf
Looks for PDF files containing the terms “moodle” and “guide”. |
| define: | Returns the definition of a word or expression. | define:operator
Returns the meaning of “operator”. |
| link: | Shows the results that contains a given link. Useful to check who’s talking about us or linking to our websites. | link:https://blog.inerciadigital.com
Shows the results that links to blog.inerciadigital.com |
| related: | Returns websites with similar content that the one you’re pointing at. | related:https://elpais.com
Shows similar websites (newspapers). |
