SEARCHING SEARCH ENGINE (Lesson 1)

Most of the people uses search engine by just dropping in some keywords and then looking for what turns up. Whereas if you use make proper use of some syntaxes you can easily get what you are looking for.

Here we cannot promote the name of any search engine so i'm using the letter "G" to denote the search engine name.

Boolean function-

AND - This function is default i.e. if u search for anything without using a function, G will search for all of them. E.g.: hacking black book - u will get the result for all of em can be in a single document can be in different document some containing "hacking", some containing "black" and some "book".

OR - If you want that either word is acceptable. E.g.: Hacking or black or book 

" " - If you want the exact phrase you group your search with parentheses. E.g.: "hacking black book" will show all the pages where all three of them are together and in same sequence.

Using * - Searching for " hack * book" in G would give results as "hacking black book", "hacking blue book", "hacking red book" and so on.

intitle: Restricts the search to the TITLES of web pages.

allintitle: Restricts the search to pages where all specified words make up the title of the web page.

inurl: Restricts your search to the URLs of web pages.

allinurl: Restricts the search to pages where all specified words make up the URL of the web page.

intext: Searches only body text (i.e., ignores link text, URLs, and titles).

allintext: Searches for all specified words in the body of text

inanchor: Searches for text in a page's link anchors. A link anchor is the descriptive text of a link.

site: Searches for the exact site. E.g.: site: hackingme.blogspot.com

link: Returns a list of pages linked to the specified url.

cache: Finds a copy of the page that G indexed, even if that page is no longer exists. This type of search is necessary for pages that change often.

daterange: Restricts your search to a particular date or range of dates that a page was indexed. Works perfect with Julian and not Gregorian dates (the calendar we use every day.) The Gregorian/Julian converters are available online.

filetype: Searches the suffixes or filename extensions.
E.g.: hacking black book.pdf, hacking black book.doc, etc.

related: Finds pages that are related to the specified page. E.g.: related: google.com

info: Provides a page of links to more information about a specified URL...

phonebook: Looks up phone numbers.