Google Syntax

by Satatik

Ok this is my text file on google syntax commands for, you guessed it www.google.com. I will cut to the chase.

Syntax commands help you widen your search results and sometimes can be used for exploiting web pages.(But I don't think you should do that.)

PHRASE SEARCHES: If you want to look for a phrase like IE: "to be or not to be" You must let google know it is a phrase by putting parrenthsise on each end of the phrase.

BASIC BOOLEAN: Googles basic boolean is and;that mean if you enter query words without modifiers,google will search for all of the words, EX:if you search for //zx3 lavalamp "hondazmutsu" // google will sarch for all the words.If you prefer to specify that one word or phrase is acceptable,put an OR between each word.OR is the substitute for the | (pipe).

NEGATION: If you search for //green flowers// and you come up with other stuff like green flower dolls then you may want google to take away what you don't wnat so if you don't want dolls then your search would be like this ///green flowers -dolls// or you can do -"dolls",remember make sure there is a space before the - and no space after or it won't work.

EXPLICIT INCLUSION:Google will search for all the word in the phrase you specify,but there are some exceptions,like the words most commonly used like "a" "i" "the" "of" just to name a few.So if you want to or have to include those then add a + before the stop word. EX: +the big mom /// If you have more than one stop word in a sentance then do this// +the big mom +is huge // Adding a + at every stop word.

FULL-WORD WILDCARDS: Some search engines use a techniqe called STEMMING, but I'm too lazy to explain what it is because were not using it but all I can say is it is the same thing as a full-word wildcard so adding a * before or after a word will come up with multiple subjects.For example: moon* would find :moonS,moonLIGHT,and moonSHOT ect. but it gets all the words you can add onto the end of moon IE: LIGHT SHOT.if you search "three * mice" it would com up with : three blue mice,three green mice,and three blind mice ECT.So the * is a stand in for a word like ' in the english language.

TEN WORD LIMIT Google has a ten word limit for searches,you can bypass it by two methods:

1.cut down on common words.

2. use * wildcards for common words.

SPECIAL SYNTAX

INTITLE: intitle: is use to find a web page if you don't know its name.For instance the website your trying to find is whatever.com but you only remember "ever"in the address,so you type /// intitle:"ever" site:.com /// and you will find it,by the way the site command will be displayed next.

SITE: the site: syntax is to specify a top level domain like .com, .org, .gov, and such so that explains how I used it in the inurl: example above.

INTEXT: the intext: syntax skips all the urls,pages,EVERYTHING, and only searches for text in web pages so you can imagine what its used for.Like once in totse.c0m there is a erotic section I had to have a password to get in.So I used /// inurl:totse*/erotica intext:pussy /// that got me in by bypassing the password login and going straight to the stories.The inurl:totse*/erotica searched for all files in the site totse in the /erotica section, and the intext:pussy searched for and stories with pussy the word in them.By the way the inurl: stynax will be diplayed next.

INURL: the inurl: syntax searches for all websites with whatever you typed in in the address.EX: inurl:totse will search for all sites with the word totse in the address name.

LINK: now this ones usefull for you webmasters out there, the link: syntax searches for all sites linking to the site you specified,EX: link:www.totse.com will find all sites linking to totse.com in one way or another.

CACHE: have you ever gone to a site and it is all of a sudden of line and you want to know what happened to it?well heres your answer the cache: syntax,it displays the last time google took a photo of the site when it was online.EX: if www.whatever.com was off line and you wanted to know what happened to it you would type cache:www.whatever.com and google will display a pitchure of what it was like before it went ofline.

FILETYPE: the filetype syntax is used to narrow your search to a specific file type EX: inurl:totse filetype:jpg will search for all jpg's at totse.com, it works with ANY filetype.

PHONEBOOK: you can find peoples,buissnesses,and the entire phonebooks list of numbers using this syntax. Use rphonebook: for residential only and bphonebook: for buissnesses only,and phonebook: for all of it.EX: just enter the name of the person or buissnes IE: rons carpets ,and the city name IE: NY , and the state IE: NY . And it will give you the number.

A WORD ON MIXING SYNTAX: Use common sense when mixing syntax, don't mix ones that will cancel each other out.

Thats it and look out for my next file that will be a short, UNDERSTANDING GOOGLE SEARCH URLS!!!!!