Google Search: learning to search

So, let's look at the basics of the syntax of search queries and some tricks of search on google.com. You may already know many of them, but nevertheless, something can be very useful for daily searches.

• To search for quotes, you can use both phrases enclosed in quotes, as well as phrases connected with a hyphen: ["example of quotes search"] or [example-search-quotes]. Google perceives as signs connecting words into a single phrase, not only quotes, but also such characters as hyphen, slash (slash), dot, equal sign, apostrophe.
• Previously, Google could misinterpret some special characters, like [#], but now the problem has been solved. But this still does not mean that you can use any characters, and when searching by strings [t.], [T-] or [t ^], the result will be the same.
• Google allows up to 32 words per search query.
• By default, when searching with multiple keywords, the “and” operator is used. If you do not want documents with one or another word in the results, put a “-” sign in front of it, meaning logical “NOT”: [rent of office-warehouse].
• Using the search you can find the synonyms of the words:
  [~ test], although, as I understand it, for the Russian language is not yet relevant.
• If you need to find numerical values ​​from the specified range, use the operator "..": [2003..2006]
• To find definitions of different words, you can use the special operator define: [define: yandex].
• You can find pages that link to a particular site using the link operator: [link: habrahabr.ru]
• When forming a search query, you can use the “or” operator, it is used as a vertical bar symbol: [blog (habr | habrahabr)] - as a result, documents containing the word “blog” and one of two things: “habr” or “habrahabr” will be found "
• When displaying search results, Google takes into account the regional settings of your system, and also determines your location by ip-address, and the results may vary significantly when searching from different countries or in different languages.
• When searching for phrases, you can use the wildcard "*": ["but we do not care, but we *"]. For example, it is thus convenient to look for the lyrics of a song, or quotes, if only a few words of them are known.
• To narrow the search results for specific domains, use the site operator: [site: .promodj.ru]

And here is a list of the most interesting special operators that are allowed for Google search (and some of them are used in Advanced Search):

• Cache: - Returns a cached copy of the page with the specified address or URL
• Inanchor: - Search for keywords in the link text
• Related: - Finds sites that are thematically related or similar.
• Info: - Displays information about the site at the specified address
• Allinurl: - Finds pages in which URLs all of the specified keywords are found.
• Inurl: - Finds specified keywords in URLs on pages
• Stocks: - Search for stock quotes from several sources
• Allintitle: - Finds pages with all specified keywords located in the area
  Filetype: - Finds documents of a specific type (with the specified file extension)
  Daterange: - Finds pages indexed at a specified time interval.