ADVANCED GOOGLE OPERATORS

Date Range:

Returns documents modified in the given time interval. Dates should be entered in Julian format (so geeky, but a bit unusable). Using doughnuts daterange:2454091-2454101 you can find who talked about doughnuts in the last ten days of 2006 :)

File Type:

Returns links to documents with the given file type. For example searching for doughnuts filetype:java will find portable and object-oriented doughnuts. Currently officially supported file types are pdf, ps, wk1, wk2, wk3, wk4, wk5, wki, wks, wku, lwp, mw, xls, ppt, doc, wks, wps, wdb, wri, rtf, swf, ans, txt, but other are supported as well, like xml, cpp, java etc.

Site:

Restricts the results to the given domain. site:mapelli.info will find all indexed page on www.mapelli.info, while site:mapelli.info doughnuts will find all doughnuts-related pages on www.mapelli.info . Update: you can use the site operator also to find your supplemental results using this query: site:www.mapelli.info *** -sljktf. (Taken from an interesting article about Google Supplemental Index Results by Aaron Wall)

Cache:

Shows the cached version of given webpage. Other words in the query will be highlighted in the returned page, try cache:www.mapelli.info doughnuts

Link:

Lists webpages that link to the given webpage.

link:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doughnut will list webpages with links pointing to Wikipedia’s voice for Doughnut

Related:

Returns pages that google somehow thinks are related to the given page. Not always accurate.

Info:

Returns some informations about the given web page. Typically website and description.

Define:

Returns the definition of a given word. Try define:doughnuts (in case you are an alien and you don’t know what a Doughnut is 8) )

Phonebook:

Search in residential phone book. Sample: phonebook:smith Los Angeles

Stocks:

Returns stock info: try stocks:goog

Weather:

Weather informations for the given city. weather:Los Angeles

Movie:

Returns all movies related to the search term given. Sample: movie:doughnuts You can also find movies by locations: movie:nyc , movie 10015

Flights:

You can search for flights inside USA using the airport code (does not work for every airport). Sample:jfk lax