LibGuides: Advanced Google Searching: Filter By Types of Sources/Domain Types

Filtering By Types of Sources/Domain Types

SITE:

Targets a specific type of domain (.gov, .edu, .org, .com, etc), county (.BZ for example for Brazil), or just one website.

site:gov-only searches your keywords within U.S. or state government websites.
- For example, "Covid statistics" site:ny.gov . This will search NY government websites.
site:org-only searches keywords in nonprofit or not-for-profit websites.
- For example, migrants site:org
site:edu -only searches keywords in college/university websites.
- For example: :"library services" site: Berkeley.edu

Internet Country Domains List
Searchable list of country codes. The official list of top-level domains is maintained by the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA). IANA is responsible for the global coordination of the DNS Root, IP addressing, and other Internet protocol resources.

Search a specific source's content: could be on its website or included on another site.

"artificial intelligence" "white paper" inurl:Microsoft OR Apple -searches for white papers on artificial intelligence published by either Microsoft OR Apple on their site(s).
inurl:blogs -searches blogs
inurl:forum -searches forums
inurl:youtube -searches YouTube
inurl:video -searches videos
allinurl: Google restricts results to those containing all the query terms you specify in the URL. For example allinurl: google faq will return only documents that contain the words “google” and “faq” in the URL, such as “www.google.com/help/faq.html”.

One can search for word(s) with a particular word in the title tag:

intitle:Catskills
allintitle:Catskill Mountain peaks, Catskill Mountain peaks Compare this to just searching, Catskill Mountain peaks

Find the most recent cache of a webpage.

Search for the definition of a word or phrase.

To find related or similar sites.