Useful Google Search Commands

Nice list of Google commands to use for you searches.

1. link:url Shows other pages with links to that url.
2. related:url same as “what’s related” on serps.
3. site:domain restricts search results to the given domain.
4. allinurl: shows only pages with all terms in the url.
5. inurl: like allinurl, but only for the next query word.
6. allintitle: shows only results with terms in title.
7. intitle: similar to allintitle, but only for the next word. “intitle:webmasterworld google” finds only pages with webmasterworld in the title, and google anywhere on the page.
8. cache:url will show the Google version of the passed url.
9. info:url will show a page containing links to related searches, backlinks, and pages containing the url. This is the same as typing the url into the search box.
10. spell: will spell check your query and search for it.
11. stocks: will lookup the search query in a stock index.
12. filetype: will restrict searches to that filetype. “-filetype:doc” to remove Microsoft word files.
13. daterange: is supported in Julian date format only. 2452384 is an example of a Julian date.
14. maps: If you enter a street address, a link to Yahoo Maps and to MapBlast will be presented.
15. phone: enter anything that looks like a phone number to have a name and address displayed. Same is true for something that looks like an address (include a name and zip code)
16. site:www.somesite.net “+www.somesite.+net”
(tells you how many pages of your site are indexed by google)
17. allintext: searches only within text of pages, but not in the links or page title
18. allinlinks: searches only within links, not text or title

Whenever I want to search in google I would use the “intitle:some text” or “intext: some text” command