Search Tools: Summary and Comparison of Commands

Google www.google.com Default search Usually all of your words, but omits words if number of results is low or zero. Not user specified. Google automatically looks for variations and synonyms. Use OR for example oil OR petroleum Suggests additional terms as you type in your search. Also offers related searches at the bottom of your results page. for example climate change Use the asterisk to stand in for one or more words in a phrase for example solar * panels Precede words with a minus sign (-) For example cats -lions Repeat the term 2 or more times in your search. Also changes the order of the results. inurl: for example inurl:chocolate intitle: for example intitle:petroleum intext: ensures that an exact match of your term appears in the text of the page for example intext:parrot Also seems to give greater weighting to the term. site: looks for your terms on a specific site or type of site. For example UK carbon emissions site:gov.uk Bing www.bing.com All of your words DuckDuckGo http://duckduckgo.com/ All of your words

Wild card or truncation Alternative terms or variations Suggests other search strategies and related terms

No

No

Use OR for example oil OR petroleum Suggests additional terms as you type in your search. Related Searches to the right of your web search results. for example climate change near:n For example solar near:2 panels Precede words with a minus sign (-) or use NOT For example cats -lions Repeat the term 2 or more times in your search. Also changes the order of the results. No intitle: for example intitle:petroleum No

Use OR for example oil OR petroleum No

Phrases Proximity

... for example climate change No

Exclude pages with a word

Precede words with a minus sign (-) For example cats -lions Repeat the term 2 or more times in your search. Also changes the order of the results. No intitle: or t: for example intitle:petroleum inbody: or b: ensures that an exact match of your term appears in the text of the page. For example inbody:parrot site: looks for your terms on a specific site or type of site. For example UK carbon emissions site:gov.uk No

Boost importance of a term

Word in URL: Word in title

Word in the text

Specify part of domain or limit by web site

site: looks for your terms on a specific site or type of site. For example UK carbon emissions site:gov.uk No

Similar pages

related: looks for pages or sites that are similar in content. For example related:www.apis.ac.uk

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Google www.google.com File type or format filetype: Looks for files in the specified format. For example banking reform 2012 filetype:pdf On the results page click on Search tools in the menu above the results, then Any time and select a time period or specify a custom range. daterange: Uses Julian date format for example daterange:24560982456104 Date convertor available at http://aa.usno.navy.mil/data/do cs/JulianDate.php/ Limit by geography Country versions of Google

Bing www.bing.com filetype: Looks for files in the specified format. For example banking reform 2012 filetype:pdf Top of the results page Any time option. (Only available in the US version of Bing)

DuckDuckGo http://duckduckgo.com/ filetype: Looks for files in the specified format. For example banking reform 2012 filetype:pdf No, but can sort by date by adding sort:date to your search. Results powered by Blekko.com

Search by date

loc: followed by two letter country code for example loc:de AND, OR, NOT and parentheses ( ). UPd

region: or r: followed by two letter country code for example region:de AND, OR, NOT and parentheses ( ). No

Boolean Cached copy

OR Click on the green arrow next to the URL of a page in the results list and select Cached, or search using cache: for example cache:rba.co.uk Numeric range search for example toblerone 1..5 kg daterange: (uses Julian date format see above) define finds definitions and synonyms of words. Also provides information on the origin of a word, use over time and translations. (No colon is required after define.) compare to compare two items of a similar type for example compare spinach with cabbage Additional search options in the menus at the top of the results page.

Unique features

feed: looks for an RSS or Atom feed related to your search term for example feed:gardening linkfromdomain: finds all the outbound links on a domain for example linkfromdomain:rba. co.uk

No tracking, no personalisation or filter bubble

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