Use These Google Power Search Commands!  Part 1

These Google search tricks will improve your ability to find just what you are looking for on the vast World Wide Web. Take a few minutes to experiment with each of these search options, and you can amaze and impress your friends with your search prowess!

♦ Search For An Exact Phrase: – If you are looking for a web site or sites that contain a specific phrase, simply use Quotation marks around the phrase.  In the example below, it is interesting that Google only found one page on the vast World Wide Web, that contains this specific search phrase.

♦ Search for a Word Within a Specific URL: – To search for a specific word within a specific Web Site or URL (uniform resource locator), use the search command site: as shown below.  You will note that at the time of the search on the Web Site hotpctips.com, Google found two pages that contain the word ssd.  Google will rank the pages found based on the number of times this word appears on those specific pages.

♦ Find WebSites with related content to a specific URL: – Use the search command related: to find Web Sites that are similar in content to a known URL. It is interesting that Google identifies Ebay, Barnes and Noble and Overstock.com as similar to Amazon.

♦ Exclude a Word within a specific Search String: – To exclude a specific word from a list of words in a search, simply add a “-” before the word you want to exclude as shown. In the example below, I asked Google to find Web Sites that contain “computer deals”, but exclude Tiger Direct (PS: Nothing against Tiger Direct, they are a great place to look for “Computer Deals”). If you exclude “-tigerdirect” from your search command, Tiger Direct will come up near the top of the search result.

♦ Search for all the Words In the Body of A Page on a WebSite: – If you want to search only in the body Web Pages, simply add the search command allintext: before your list of words you wish to search for. In this example, we are looking for Web Sites that contain the words “silver and gold history coins”, in no specific order.

♦ Search for a Set of Words In the Body of A Page, and in Addition Other Words that are in the Title or the URL: – This one is a little tricky.  In this example, we would use the search command intext: to search for a Web Pages that contains “investment” and “strategy” in the body of the Web Page, and the words “Gold” and “Silver” elsewhere (IE: in either the URL or Title).

♦ Search for all the words in the URL of a specific WebSite: – If you want to find a Web Site where the URL contains a specific set of words use the command allinurl:. As you will note below, I searched for a Web Site(s) that contains the words “hotpctips” and “History”, both in the URL.  The body and Title of the Web Page are excluded from the search.

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This should give you plenty to play with and practice today!