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specific results. You can, for instance,
have Google search for terms in the
title, the text, the URL, or links to a
specific Web page. The “intitle:” and
“inurl:” operators provide a similar
function. If you can remember the title
of a Web page but not its URL, the
“intitle:” operator is extremely helpful.
The “inurl:” operator is helpful in
finding Web sites that contain a specific
term or terms in its URL.
If you’re looking for Engadget
but can’t remember its URL, type
intitle:engadget to locate the Web site.
The “intitle:” operator, however, only
works for a single term. If you needed
to find the Smart Computing home
page, for instance, and you tried
searching for intitle:smart computing,
Google would return Web pages with
Smart in the title and Computing anywhere
on the page. This will get you
where you’re going, but the “allintitle:”
operator provides a more efficient option.
This option will only return results
with both “smart” and
“computing” in the title. The “inurl:”
operator works in a similar way to the
“intitle:” operator, only it looks for
specific terms in URLs. The “allinurl:”
operator works in the same manner as
the “allintitle:” operator.
At the bottom of the Advanced
Search page are two search fields where
you can find Web pages similar to a
specific page or pages that link to a
specified page. You can also use this
feature in a standard search using the
“related:” and “link:” operators. If you
want to find Web sites similar to barnes
andnoble.com, you’d type related:
www.barnesandnoble.com. Typing
link:www.barnesandnoble.com returns
pages that link to the URL.
In some instances, using operators
can result in a more exact search
than you’d get using the Advanced
Search page. For instance, if you’re
planning a vacation to either Rome
or New Zealand, you can try entering
vacation in the first field and
Rome New Zealand in the third field
of the Advanced Search page. You
may find some helpful information,
T HE S EARCH
Searching for
weather forecasting
history (top) yields
759,000 results.
Using the “allinurl:”
operator (bottom)
reduces the number
of results to just 11.
but this isn’t the
best search because
it’s searching
for pages that contain
Rome, New,
or Zealand. Enclosing
New Zealand
in quotes in
the third field does
not help matters at
all. Using operators, however, you
can easily cobble together a more efficient
query by typing vacation
Rome OR “New Zealand.”
Advanced Operators
Although operators occasionally
provide more flexibility, they don’t
provide all the features found on the
Advanced Search page. There is no
operator to limit returns to a specific
language, for instance, or an operator
to limit results to recently updated
Web pages.
There are operators, however, that
provide features not found on
Google’s Advanced Search page. For
instance, you can search numerical
ranges, include synonyms in a search,
define a word, get stock quotes, and
find information about a Web site
using special operators.
Numerical ranges are helpful if
you’re looking for products within a
certain price range, defining a historical
search to specific years, or
looking for notebooks within a certain
weight range. If you’re looking
for historical information about your
hometown, but you want to narrow
your search to specific years, separate
the low-end and high-end of the
range by two periods (with no
spaces). For instance, if you’re
looking up historical information
about Ontario, Calif., and want to
focus on the years between 1890 and
1925, you’d type Ontario, California
1890..1925. This search string results
in 1,010,000 English language pages.
Omitting the date range increases the
number of pages to 15,300,000
English language pages. Our numerical
search included an old brochure
dating back to 1910 and a Web page
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