The document provides a comprehensive guide on using internet search operators to enhance online searches, facilitating precise results and access to trustworthy information. It details various operators such as quotes for exact matches, plus and minus for inclusions and exclusions, and the tilde for synonyms, among others. Additionally, it covers methods for searching specific sites, filtering by file types, and finding related content online.

1. Internet search operators

2. Searching, researching and exploring
online contents
 Why do we need these Internet search operators (rather Google
search operators)?
The answer is simple---------Achieving precise results within no time, finding trustworthy/ethical
information/contents and access to reliable sites

3. Lets Begin…..!!!

4. Searching for a particular match
Enclose a word/phrase inside the quotes(“ ”). This gives you the sites
containing exact match for your query
Example: “the man who knew infinity”, “Presidential election 2016”, “A
gentleman in Moscow”, etc.

6. Filtering results using “+”, “–” and
“~” operators
 Use “+” operator to include things in your search
Example: taj +mahal +hotel (Refines the results by displaying links containing all the three terms
 Use “-” operator to exclude things in your search
Example: taj –mahal (refines your results by excluding pages having information about taj mahal)
 Use “~” i.e. tilde in your search, Google results in the word as well as synonyms for the term.
Example: ~demonetisation (refines your results and gives information from Wikipedia, Britannica,
encyclopedia, factmonster, etc.)

7. Search for a price or range
 Put ₹ (or any currency symbol) in front of a number/amount.
Example: smartphone ₹50000
 Searching within a specified range (Put .. between two
numbers/amount )
Example: laptop ₹40000..₹50000

9. Getting an appropriate definition
for a word/phrase
 Use define:word in order to get authentic definitions for the
word/phrase written after “define” from reliable sources
Example: define:Demonetization

10. Searching for wildcards or unknown
words
 Use * in your word or phrase you missed out or don’t remember
Example1: "Gone with the * “
Example2: “A * in Moscow "

12. Searching for a specific site
 Put "site:" in front of a site or domain.
Example: site:uwaterloo.ca (It gives you the results corresponding to
University of Waterloo)
 Put "site:domain.com“ followed by any appropriate keyword you
want to search
Example: site:uwaterloo.ca Mathematics and Computing Contest

13. Combine your searches
 Use "OR" between each search.
Example: Drake OR Eminem
 Using “AND” ensures both the queries appears
Example: Drake AND Eminem.
 Using “NOT” ensures the results are filtered and
doesn’t include word/phrase written after “not”
Example: “The man who knew infinity” book not
movie
Results will contain
either Drake or
Eminem
Results will contain
both Drake and
Eminem
Results will contain
book with this
name, not the
movie

14. Searching for a specific file type to
use
 Use “filetype:format" post the related topic you are searching for
Example: Meteorology filetype:pdf or Meteorology filetype:doc or
Meteorology filetype:ppt

16. Searching for related sites
 Put "related:" in front of a web address you know and querying to
find sites related to it.
Example: related:youtube.com (As a result of this query, you will
receive all the websites similar to youtube)

17. Searching for URL’s with the exact
word in it
 Use allinurl: followed by the exact match you are searching for
Example: allinurl: Moscow (displays all the web pages with Moscow in
the URL)

19. Further reading
 https://bynd.com/news-ideas/google-advanced-search-comprehensive-list-google-
search-operators/

20. Happy Searching!