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It’s really a common approach to search in Google by just typing in the keywords
and hit Search. Most are not realizing that more accurate results can be
generated by tweaking a little bit on our search strings. Here are 4 search
strings to help you concentrate on what you are actually looking for.

 

 

Search within particular website with [site:]

Command

• site:domain.com “keyword”


• keyword site:domain.com

By doing this, Google restrict the search on particular website; giving you a
more concentrated result. This comes in handy when you are searching on a
mainstream news site. Example (1)- You are looking for some free icons and quite
sure Digg.com have plenty of this; you do a site:digg.com “free icons” Example
(2) - You want to learn designing web 2.0 style, there is no point searching the
entire Google where results were so mixed (you just want Photoshop tutorials).
Concentrate on one good Photoshop tutorial site:good-tutorial.com
for instance; you do a site:good-tutorials.com “web 2.0″. Results were simply
more accurate.

Understand a definition with [define:]

Command

• define:keyword

Here’s a quick search string to understand particular keyword or even a
phrase you do not understand. What is Web 2.0? We know what it is but sometimes
it quite hard to put it in words Let Google describe it for you with define:Web
2.0

Find similar websites with [related:]

Command

• related:keyword

This is simple. If you are looking for free fonts and have no idea where to
get them, try using related:free fonts. Google will result you all sites that
have similar content to “free font”. This function is exactly the same like
“Similar pages” found under the right corner of a search result.

Customized search within title and content with [intitle:]

Command

• intitle:title-keyword content-keyword

[intitle:] let you control the title and content you want to search. Example
- If you are looking for a free font with the name Magneto, restrict your search
down to intitle:”free font” magneto. This will give you all results with pages
that mentions “free font” in title and “magneto” in content.

These few should give you a good jump start to more accurate content.