How many times have you searched Google and received a bunch of incorrect or irrelevant search results? Here are some search shortcuts to narrow down the irrelevant results and easily find what you are looking for.
See a list of shortcuts and operators that Google Search can accept, divided into 4 categories.
A. Informative search queries
| Shortcut | Description | Example |
| sets | Returns a definition of the given term | define iguru |
| team | Returns the current time to a specific location | time Athens |
| to | Convert measurements from one unit to another | 5 kg to pounds |
| in | Convert measurements from one unit to another | 100 euros in usd |
| Translate | Translates the requested terms into another specified language | translate hello english |
| map | Returns location result | map Anogia |
| stocks | Returns stock market information | aegean stocks |
| weather | Returns the weather forecast for the given location or TK | weather gr 11475 |
B. Basic search symbols
| Shortcut | Description | Example |
| - | Excludes search results that include this term | best sites -iguru |
| | | Returns search results that match both terms on both sides of the symbol | computer | tablets |
| @ | Returns search results that match a specific social media site | smartphone @twitter |
| # | Displays search results that include a specific hashtag | #followiguru |
| "" | Displays search results that include all terms within quotation marks in that order | "Panathinaikos - Olympiakos" |
| * | Returns search results where any words can be mapped to the asterisk position | best * in Athens |
| .. | When placed between two numbers, it returns search results that match within the range of numbers | tablets 100..500 |
| () | Used to group search terms and query logical search query | (better | worse) office suite |
| $ | Returns values productof | dell $ 1000 |
C. Popular search operators
| Shortcut | Description | Example |
| cache: | Show Google cache of a specific page. | cache: iguru.gr |
| filetype: | It only displays search results that match a specific extension archiveυ | sleep study filetype: pdf |
| related: | Returns other sites that are similar to the site in question | related: nytimes.com |
| website: | Returns only search results from a specific site | tweaks site: iguru.gr |
D. Other search operators
| Shortcut | Description | Example |
|---|---|---|
| inanchor: | Google will limit the results to pages that contain the term inanchor or links to that term | restaurants inanchor: gourmet |
| allinanchor: | Google will limit the results to pages that contain all the terms in allinanchor or links with all those terms. When useste allinanchor: in your query, do not include other search operators. | Athens allinanchor: best museum |
| intext: | The query intext: term, restricts the results to documents that definitely contain the term in the text. Do not leave blank after: | Greece intext: pandemic |
| allintext: | The allintext: terms query restricts results to documents that contain all the terms in the text. Leave blank with: | allintext: flu pandemic Athens |
| intitle: | Displays only results that contain the term in the page title | iguru.gr intitle: about |
| allintitle: | Same with intitle, but it should match any term that appears after allintitle | allintitle: iguru about |
| inurl: | Displays only results that contain the term in the page URL | inurl: about site: iguru.gr |
| allinurl: | Same with inurl, but it should match any term that appears after allinurl | allinurl: iguru about |
The most useful operators are usually the sites :, filetype :, to, but it is good to know the rest. This is actually a small but basic sample of the operators used by Google search. The whole range is contained on this site.
