Advanced Google Searching
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 ListSearchable 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.
INURL:
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”.
INTITLE:
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
CACHE:
Find the most recent cache of a webpage.
DEFINE
Search for the definition of a word or phrase.
RELATED
To find related or similar sites.
