How many times have you searched for Google and received a bunch of incorrect or irrelevant search results? Check out some search shortcuts that can help you narrow down irrelevant results and easily find what you're 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 hi 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 product prices | dell $ 1000 |
C. Popular search operators
Shortcut | Description | Example |
cache: | Show Google cache of a specific page. | cache: iguru.gr |
filetype: | Displays only search results that correspond to a specific file extension | 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 |
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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 the allinanchor or links to all of those terms. When using 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 query:terms, restricts the results to documents that absolutely 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.