Googling to the Max
Googling Guide #3 Limit Commands in Google
Research Quality Web Searching, Part 1 Teaching Library UC Berkeley
MIXING LIMIT COMMANDS: You can combine or mix most limit commands with other limit commands and/or search terms. You can use Boolean operators, and phrases to do this. However, you cannot mix anything with commands that apply to all terms that follow the command (e.g., allintitle: allinurl:). Limit/Focus Commands
intitle:
Suggested Uses & Limitations:
Requires terms to occur in the
field, part of the HTML <Head> or top section. Finds pages likely to be focused on your terms. Requires all terms that follow to be in title field. Equivalent of repeating intitle: before all terms. Words may be in any order unless quotes are used to force phrases. Focuses narrowly on pages about the terms used. Requires terms to be in URLs. Can be used with or without quotes, and repeated. URL punctuation is ignored. Usually finds pages focused very specifically on terms. Requires all terms to occur somewhere in URLs, in any order. Must be followed by all or the last part of the top level of a URL, which identifies a "site." Must include org, edu, com, etc. "www" and http:// optional. Requires all results to have this as the top level URL (or site). Use to search within a site or limit to type of site (e.g., org or edu). Follow by a file extension (pdf, xls, doc, ppt, etc.). Requires terms to be in these types of documents. A more precise way to limit by date last crawled than the Adv. Search, which allows only 3 mos, 6 mos, l yr. Finds recently updated pages, pages created on a specific date, and unupdated pages. If you don't know Julian dates: www.faganfinder.com/ google.html
Examples:
• intitle:"sea level" rise california • intitle:"global warming" intitle:"sea level" california • intitle:"global warming" site:epa.gov – site:com • allintitle: global warming sea level rise • allintitle: global warming "sea level rise"
allintitle:
inurl:
• inurl:"joe barker" finds pages with these two in URLs, allowing any punctuation. • inurl:joe barker finds pages with joe in URLs, and barker somewhere in the document. • allinurl: infopeople training finds pages like www.infopeople.org/training/ • site:infopeople.org finds all pages in Google from this site. • site:infopeople.org training finds pages in Google from this site with the word "training." • site:org OR site:edu librarian training finds pages with these terms inside .org or .edu sites in Google. • filetype:pdf "native americans" diabetes • filetype:pdf OR filetype:ppt "boolean searching" • web searching daterange:24526402453005 finds pages containing these terms crawled between 6/1/03 and 6/1/04.
allinurl: site:
filetype:
daterange:Julian dates (date Google visited & found content changes).
-- M O R E -Googling to the Max, Teaching Library, UC Berkeley, 2004-2005. Adapted from materials developed by Joe Barker for "Extreme Googling," an Infopeople Workshop. The Infopeople Project [infopeople.org] is supported by the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act, administered in California by the State Librarian.
Limit/Focus Commands
numrange: .. -
Suggested Uses & Limitations:
An optional way of specifying that you want pages only containing a certain range of numbers. You can just type 123..456, 123.., or ..456 and get the same result. Google also accepts 123-456, 123-, or -456. Find web pages from servers in a specific country, regardless of TLD. List of country codes at www.iana.org/cctld/cctld-whois.htm
Examples:
• numrange:1920..1930
Sites from foreign country (URL hack) After a Google search, append to resulting URL in Address box: &restrict=country XX with XX being a capitalized two-letter country code.
• Step 1: In Google Search Box, perform the search: recipes OR cooking brazil OR brazilian • Step 2: In Address box, append to the URL created by step 1: &restrict=countryBR
Limit Commands for Web Managers and Authors:
intext:
Suggested Uses & Limitations:
Requires search terms to occur in the text or <Body>. They may also occur in the title, url, or other places, and so this search resembles the default search, which looks at text. Requires all search terms to occur in the text or <Body>. Equivalent of repeating intext: before each term. Require terms to be in the anchor text, the descriptive text that is linked to in HTML, found between > and < the anchor or link. The circled text in this example is anchor text:
<a href:"http://infopeople.org">Infopeople Project</a>
Examples:
Limited application, because in text is default. • intext:"sheet music" lincoln
allintext
• allintext: finding information
inanchor:
• inanchor:"infopeople project" finds pages with this as text linked to, in URLs, or in links. Retrieves all kinds of pages with this text in them somehow linked to.
allinanchor:
Text may also occur elsewhere and not in anchor text. Many pages found point to a page with the anchor text and do not contain it. Of value to web authors looking for links to a page via text (as opposed to the link: search, which reads the URLs in links). Requires all search terms to occur in the • allinanchor: irs 1040 anchor text any order, as explained above.
Extreme Googling Summer/Fall 2004 - This material has been created by Joe Barker for the Infopeople Project [infopeople.org], supported by the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act, administered in California by the State Librarian. Any use of this material should credit the author and funding source.
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