Google searching techniques

[moratmarit]

Thanks guys for tips searching..

[jacks smith]

Thanks very useful tips

[Keron Chew]

Thank you for share them

[rayter]

Woa, I didn't know Google has this many searching techniques. Thanks for sharing.

[cecille20]

^ Same here I don't also knew about this.. BTW royal, did you just discovered it or its written in Google.

[madness222]

Is this real? I can't believed Google has this kind of searching techniques...

[doomcashdown]

Google do give searchers a lot of options on how to use their search engine technology. Quite informative. I've been looking for this, but I could not find the time to search for it myself. Well, it's a good thing that I had came into this post. Thanks..

[Allison Ava]

google is really incredible. That is why google is the number search engine... gives many information for all of us.

[Menzess]

Excellent thread for those people who are not using this features of google search,but for analysis about competitors sites the knowledge on these tricks is quite essential.I'm already using some of these features.

[solar_power]

That's a good google command lists. Some of them are new to me.

[betty]

These are looking great techniques. This is great information. Few techniques are very new for me.

[mikehudson]

Really helpful Post,

How to search a text in sources page,is there any search query for finding text or any keyword in the source page.

Please let me know.
Thanks

[mdamin76]

Well done. Good info.

[chauhan]

Hi guys,
First of all merry christmas and happy new year 2010
You might be thinking that google is just to search websites only but it is far more than you think. You can use Google for a lots of things and you can broaden your search in many ways.

1) Exact Search
This command searches exactly as you search. The terms you search will be together in the pages Google searches.
Example: "Metallica Concert"

2) Exclude Search
This command searches the pages that you want but also excludes the term you don't want to have in pages.
Example: Metallica Concert -Toronto

3) Exact Site Search
This command searches the pages within the website you provide
Example: site:therockmission.com Metallica

4) Similar Search
This command searches the word you want but also the synonyms you searched for
Example: "Virus Definition" ~clean

5) Document Search
This command searches the file that can be downloaded or with the extension you want
Example: "Mafia Cheats" filetype:pdf

6) Exceptional Search
This command searches pages with words you want but you can give option to Google.
Example: Mafia War Cheat OR Strategy

7) Phone Listing
This command searches phone no.s you want to search for. But for this you need to provide all area code and should be well formatted.
Example: phonebook:615-55-1212

Cool Area Code Lookup
Example: 612

9) Numeric Ranges
This command hhelps you to search for the pages within the date you provide while searching
Example: US President 1950..1990

10) Stock
This command searches for NASDAQ stock listing
Example: GOOG

11) Definition
This command shows the definition of the word or keyphrase you provide
Example: define: cheat

12) Calculator
This command helps you to use google as calculator
Example: 12+59*85-85/74

13)Converter
This command helps you to convert all Mathematical calculation into other you want to.
Example: 12F in C
Note: You can use it for all Mathematical calculation like Kg, LBS, currency rates, USD, GBP, F (Fahrenheit), C (celsius) etc

14) Cached Page
This command shows what the specific website had when Google Bot crawled it
Example: cache:therockmission.com

15) Related Page
This command shows related pages to the website you supplied
Example: related:therockmission.com

16) Information
This command shows the info related to the website you supplied
Example: info:therockmission.com

17)Linked sites
This command shows which websites are linked to the website you supplied
Example: link:therockmission.com

If you have more idea on this then supply it too.

Really helpful tips for SEO beginner like me.
If you have more tips regarding Google please share with us.

[sunnyshine]

thanks for sharing the information