Search For Backlinks
Search For Backlinks
What are the different ways to search on Google?
Like if you put the search in quotes it returns results for that exact phrase or I know theres a way to search for backlinks using brackets. Is there a list of all the little tricks you can use to get better search results?
Effective Googling
Google places the “AND” operator between all search terms entered in basic search box.
It automatically searches for some plural and singular and grammatical variants.
If you enter: news reader
Google searches for: news AND reader OR readers
Google does not search an exact phrase or words, unless the phrase or words is contained within quotes.
eg.: “hollywood musicals” will return all pages where the words “hollywood musicals” appear.
If you need to expand your search with a synonym, use a tilde
e.g.:” ~Ford” – will return all results for Ford motor company
You can search by filetype also (pdf, ppt, xls, doc)
e.g.: “.Net Framework” filetype:pdf – will list out all PDF files regarding .Net
Limit your search results to a particular web site
e.g.: ranten site:google.com – will return all sites on Google where the word ranten appears
You can also search for web sites that link to a particular website
e.g.: “link:bbc.com” – will return all sites that link to bbc.com
You can find sites whic are similar.
e.g.: “related:www.facebook.com” – will return all social networking sites
You can use Google as a dictionary to find the meaning of a word.
e.g.: “define:geography” – will return a page defining the word “geography”
Google is a Calculator as well
e.g.: ((11 * 8501) /sqrt (64)) +545 – (54%5) will return the result
((11 * 8 501) / sqrt(64)) + 545 – (54 % 5) = 12 229.875
Google is Converter too..!
e.g.: 1 USD in GBP – will return the result 1 U.S. dollar = 0.622665006 British pounds
e.g.: 1 pound in kg – will return the result, 1 pound = 0.45359237 kilograms
e.g.: 1 mile in inches – will return the result, 1 mile = 63 360 inches
e.g.: 1c in f – will return the result, 1 degree Celsius = 33.8 degrees Fahrenheit
More Search Operators
allinanchor:
allintext:
allintitle:
allinurl:
cache:
group:
info:
time
weather
Use Specialty Search Functions
Google News: news.google.com
Google Images: images.google.com
Google Blog Search: blogsearch.google.com
Google Finance: finance.google.com
Google Scholar: scholar.google.com
Google Book Search: books.google.com
If you need to track an event, create your own Google News alert – it’s free!
http://www.google.com/alerts
You can choose to monitor latest developments on web pages, blogs, Google news, Google discussion group pages, or all of these sources
Google Scholar
http://scholar.google.com
Covers: law, medicine, social sciences, arts, humanities, business, & finance.
Included items: peer-reviewed papers, theses, book excerpts, abstracts & full-text articles
Sources for items: academic publisher web pages, professional societies, preprint repositories, universities, & other scholarly organizations.
Google Book Search
http://books.google.com/advanced_book_search
Searches full text of indexed books.
If work is in public domain, full contents usually available.
If not, users can view bibliographic info (author, title, publisher) and perhaps some excerpts.
Library partners: UC, Princeton, Stanford, Univ. of Michigan, Univ. of Texas, Oxford, UVA, Univ. of Wisconsin,
Something exciting at last
Localized search
Movie search
Code search
local.google.co.in will search for eg all the Dominos pizza outlets in India
google.co.in/movies
Will return all theatres running area – this case Bombay, India
google.com/codesearch
Will search for public source code
Google hack for finding movies/music
(warning: Not to be tried at office but home…!)
e.g.: intitle:”index.of”(mp3|mp4|avi|dat|mpeg)Deep Purple – will return all pages that contain media from the band Deep Purple
Google Docs
Google Calendar
Google Reader
Google Gear
Google App Engine
Google Sites
Google Sets
Google Trends and so on
PageRank as explained by Google:
Google interprets a link on page A going to page B as a vote — by page A, for page B. Google looks at more than the sheer volume of votes, or links a page receives; it also analyzes the page that casts the vote. Votes cast by pages that are themselves “important” weigh more heavily.