Search Engine Operators

| Google | Bing | Description || | ------------- | ----------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | cache: | | Shows the version of the webpage from Google’s cache. | | | contains: | Finds webpages that contain links to a particular type of file (in Bing). Example: site:yourdomain.com contains:pdf returns pages on your site that have a link to a PDF file. | | ext: | ext: | Returns only webpages with the file extension you specify (such as htm). Note: Bing may not produce reliable results, per our tests. | | filetype: | filetype: | Finds results of a single type only (such as pdf). | | | info: | Presents some information that Bing has about a webpage such as related pages from the site, external pages talking about the webpage, and related results. | | intext: | | Shows pages that contain a specific word in their body text. | | intitle: | intitle: | Finds pages that include a specific word as part of the indexed title tag. | | allintitle: | | Finds pages that include all query words as part of the indexed title tag. | | inurl: | | Finds pages that include a specific keyword in their indexed URLs. | | allinurl: | | Finds a specific URL in the search engine’s index. Also can be used to find pages whose URLs contain all the specified words. | | | inanchor: | Finds webpages that use a specified keyword as anchor text in a link. | | | inbody: | Finds webpages that use a specified keyword in its body section. | | related: | related: | Finds webpages that are similar to the specified webpage Example: related:yourdomain.com shows what the engine considers similar to your homepage. | | site: | site: | Restricts the search to pages within a particular domain and all its subdomains. Example: site:yourdomain. com shows approximately how many pages the search engine has indexed for your site. | | * | * | Acts like a wildcard that can take the place of any word or phrase. Example: tallest * in the world finds results about various tallest things. | | - | - | Excludes results that contain the word following the minus sign. Place this operation at the end of your search query. Example: cats -musical finds pages about the animal, not the show. | | " " | " " | Finds instances of the exact text within the quotation marks everywhere it appears in the search engine’s index. Example: “long string of text from your site” finds pages that have duplicate content. | | link: | | Find linked pages, i.e., show pages that point to the URL. | | [#]..[#] | | Search within a range of numbers. | | allintext: | | All query words must appear in the text of the page. |

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