2. Advanced Operators

Google has some advanced operators which can directly speak to the engine. For example if you are searching for a book "Google Hacking" in pdf form, you can use this operators rather giving a plain query like "Google Hacking ebook". Some advanced operators are briefly explained here which may optimize your everyday search result.

1. inurl, allinurl

syntax: inurl:(parameter) / allinurl:(parameters)
These operators tells the engine to search only the url's for the word given as parameter. They both work similar but have one simple difference. inurl will search only for the word immediately follows the colon. Thus the first word after the colon is taken as parameter. But allinurl takes all the words following the colon.
eg: inurl:google
will search for those sites which are all having the word "google" as part of its url.

2. intitle, allintitle

syntax:intitle:(parameter) / allintitle:(parameters)
These operators tells the engine to search only in the title of the pages. If you see the source of a html page you can see some lines between and tages. These lines will be displayed in the title screen of your browser. Google will search only in this lines if you specify intitle operator. As the above intitle takes the first word as the parameter and allintitle takes all words as parameter.
eg:
intitle:google
will search for those pages having the word google in its title.
nly for the word immediately follows the colon. Thus the first word after the colon is taken as parameter. But allinurl takes all the words following the colon.

3.allintext

syntax:allintext:(parameters)
Like the above two it tells the engine to search only in the text area not in other places like url, title. It has no intext operator. So it includes all the words after the colon.
eg:
allintext:google
will search for the pages having "google" in its body.

4.filetype

syntax:filetype:(parameter)
This operator tells the engine to take only the specified type files. It will be helpful many times to search for a particular type files. Here the parameter should be any file type.
eg:
filetype:pdf
search only for pdf files.

5. site

syntax:site:(paremeter)
If you give this operator, the engine will search only in that site. Thus it will return all the pages in that site crawled by Google. The parameter should be any site (jeppiaarcollege.org) or domain (.edu, .com, .org).
eg:
site:jeppiaarcollege.org
returns only the pages crawled at jeppiaarcollege.org website. At the time of writing it returns 299 results.

6. phonebook, rphonebook, bphonebook

syntax:phonebook:(parameters) / rphonebook:(parameters) / bphonebook:(parameters)
If you are looking for phone number of a person who resides in USA, you can use this for search. The parameter should be the firstname or lastname or both of a person. Also the short form the city of the person can be giver. Phonebook search gives all the results related to the person. But rphonebook looks only in residential lists while bphonebook looks only in the business records.

eg:
phonebook:James Bond ny
will search for the person whose firstname is James and last name is Bond. And as we specified the city as New York (ny), it will only look at the New York city records.


Actually there are more than twenty advanced operators presented by Google. But these are the most used and very much helpful operators. And you have to follow some rules while using this operators.

1. There should not be any space between the operator, colon and the parameter.
2. Valid parameter should be supplied to the operator. Otherwise the result may be irrelevant.
3. More than one operators may be combined in a search. But you should logically thing before using them.
4. Logical operators also can be used with this advanced operators.

1.Some basics

Some basic aspects about Google

1. Google is case insensitive
2. Google accepts maximum of 32 key words for searching. If you give more than 32 keywords Google will simply ignore it.
3. Some common words like "is", "a", "are" are ignored by Google.
4. The wild card character in Google is '*'. This can be used only for a full word. And this is not included in the word limit. There is no wild card character for a single letter or postfix or prefix for a single word.
5. Logical operators can be used for searching.
6. The logical operators are AND, OR and NOT.
   
7. Not like our maths all the logical operators are having the same preference.
8. OR search includes results for either this or that (one OR two). This can be replaced with '|' one | two)
9. AND returns result having both the key terms (one AND two)
10. NOT operation is performed with the operator '-'. This filters the pages having the word after '-' from the result for the searched term. For example, the search for one -two returns all the pages containing one and not having two.
    

Googling...

Most of us started our travel in Internet from Google. And now whatever we have a question in our mind we just go to Google and ask there. Most of us why all are using Google daily isn't it? It became a part of my life I think the same would happened for you also.

But what happened if we submit a query at Google? It returns a million results which are seems related for our query. And many people spend most of their time in just finding appropriate result for them by manually surfing the results one by one.

It may be a better thing but I think it is not the appropriate. Because we have a lots of things provided by Google to optimize our result. Thus we can make Google more focus on what we actually need. This simply reduces the number of results which makes our work easy.

This series is being created in the mood of making Google search better. The following posts are related to Google searching telling some techniques to get better result. But you have to pardon me for my English. I'm not well versed in English but tried to give my points clearly as possible i can.

Going to buy a new computer...?

If you are in idea of buying a new laptop, just spend a few minutes here. Before choosing your configuration or model, first talk with somebody who is trusty and having some knowledge in this field. Also you better surf Internet (while surfing, check the page's date it may be an year before).

The most common configuration specified in ads is intel core 2 duo processor, 2GB RAM, 360GB hard disk and other peripherals which costs around Rs.36,000. It is good configuration but not current. It is just one step before one.

Even Core 2 duo is a very good processor, you can find the latest one core i3 or core i5 in market today. This processors are faster than the previous one and use less power. Also the price is same. So according to me a good Laptop on the date 9th march 2010 is the one having

• intel core i3/i5 processer
• 2GB RAM
• 360GB hard disk
• in built modem,
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• DVD writer
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in Rs.35,000 (around) with one year warranty.