A guide to google's operators for a more efficient search.

1. A presentation by Ivelin Kirilov
Advanced
searching with
Google
You think you know how to
search? Think again..

2. Table of contents
❖ Google Statistics
❖ Google Search Operators
❖ Google Advanced search page

3. Google Statistics

4. ❖ When Google was founded in September 1998, it was
serving ten thousand search queries per day. By the end
of 2006 that same amount would be served in a single
second
❖ Google now processes over 40,000 search queries every
second on average (visualize them here), which
translates to over 3.5 billion searches per day and 1.2
trillion searches per year worldwide. The chart below
shows the number of searches per year throughout
Google's history:

6. Google Search Operators

7. “search”
❖ Use quotes to search for an exact word or set of words
on a web page. Only use this if you're looking for an
exact word or phrase, otherwise you'll exclude many
helpful results by mistake.

8. -search
❖ Used to exclude all results that include that word.

9. site:
❖ Get results only from certain sites or domains.

10. Live Demo
site:softuni.bg

11. link:
❖ Find pages that link to a certain page.

12. Live Demo
link:softuni.bg

13. related:
❖ Find sites that are similar to a site you already know.

14. Live Demo
related:softuni.bg

15. filetype:
❖ Search only for specific file types.

16. Live Demo
filetype:docx site:softuni.bg

17. * (asterisk)
❖ Add an asterisk within a search for any unknown or
wildcard terms.
EXAMPLE: a * saved is a * earned

18. OR
❖ If you want to search for pages that may have just one of
several words, include OR (capitalized) between the
words.

19. Live Demo
достъпно OR евтино OR безплатно и качествено
софтуерно обучение

20. ..
❖ Separate numbers by two periods without spaces (..) to
see results that contain numbers in a given range of
things like dates, prices, and measurements.

21. Live Demo
"1..15 август" site:softuni.bg

22. cache:
❖ See what a page looks like the last time Google crawled
the site.

23. Live Demo
cache:softuni.bg

24. Google Advanced Search
Page

25. ❖ Google has a page where it unifies most of its search
operators for easy use.

26. Live Demo
www.google.com/advanced_search