SEARCH ENGINE TIPS & TRICKS

Search Title
  • title: AltaVista, AllTheWeb, Inktomi
  • intitle: Restricts the results to documents containing a particular word in its title. [intitle: google search] will return documents that mention the word "google" in their title, and mention the word "search" anywhere in the document (title or no). Google, Teoma
  • allintitle: Restrict the results to those with all of the query words in the title. [allintitle: google search] will return only documents that have both "google" and "search" in the title. Google
Search Site
  • host: AltaVista
  • site: restrict the results to those websites in the given domain. [help site:www.google.com] will find pages about help within www.google.com. Excite, Google (Netscape, Yahoo)
  • url.host: AllTheWeb,Lycos (for AllTheWeb results only)
  • intext: Searching only the body text, ignoring titles, links, and so forth.
  • domain: Inktomi (HotBot, iWon, LookSmart)
  • Daterange:(start dateend date). You can restrict your searches to pages that were indexed within a certain time period. Uses Julian dates
  • Filetype: search documents of type
  • none AOL, Direct Hit, HotBot, LookSmart, Lycos, MSN, Netscape, Northern Light, Open Directory, Yahoo
Search URL
  • url: AltaVista, Excite, Northern Light
  • url.all: AllTheWeb, Lycos (for AllTheWeb results only)
  • allinurl / inurl: Restrict the results to documents containing that word(s) in the url
    [allinurl: google search] will return only documents that have both "google" and "search" in the url. Google
  • originurl: Inktomi (AOL, GoTo, HotBot)
  • u: Yahoo
  • none AOL, Direct Hit, HotBot, LookSmart, MSN, Open Directory
Search Title
  • title: AltaVista, AllTheWeb, Inktomi
  • intitle: Restricts the results to documents containing a particular word in its title. [intitle: google search] will return documents that mention the word "google" in their title, and mention the word "search" anywhere in the document (title or no). Google, Teoma
  • allintitle: Restrict the results to those with all of the query words in the title. [allintitle: google search] will return only documents that have both "google" and "search" in the title. Google
Search Site
  • host: AltaVista
  • site: restrict the results to those websites in the given domain. [help site:www.google.com] will find pages about help within www.google.com. Excite, Google (Netscape, Yahoo)
  • url.host: AllTheWeb,Lycos (for AllTheWeb results only)
  • intext: Searching only the body text, ignoring titles, links, and so forth.
  • domain: Inktomi (HotBot, iWon, LookSmart)
  • Daterange:(start dateend date). You can restrict your searches to pages that were indexed within a certain time period. Uses Julian dates
  • Filetype: search documents of type
  • none AOL, Direct Hit, HotBot, LookSmart, Lycos, MSN, Netscape, Northern Light, Open Directory, Yahoo
Search URL
  • url: AltaVista, Excite, Northern Light
  • url.all: AllTheWeb, Lycos (for AllTheWeb results only)
  • allinurl / inurl: Restrict the results to documents containing that word(s) in the url
    [allinurl: google search] will return only documents that have both "google" and "search" in the url. Google
  • originurl: Inktomi (AOL, GoTo, HotBot)
  • u: Yahoo
  • none AOL, Direct Hit, HotBot, LookSmart, MSN, Open Directory