Figure 3-1. Google results for filetype and site search
There are two other keywords that you might consider paired:
inurl:
and
intext:
. The
first looks just in the URL for your search terms. The second looks just in the text for
your search terms. Normally, Google would find matches
across different elements
related to the page. What you are telling Google here is that you want it to limit where
it is looking for your search terms. This can be useful if you are looking for pages that
have something like
/cgi_bin/
in the URL. You can also specify that you want to see
Google looking only for matches in the
text of the page by using
intext:
followed by
your search terms. Normally, Google may present results where not all of your search
terms are located. If you want to
make sure you find everything, you can use the ana‐
log keywords
allinurl:
and
allintext:
.
There are other keywords and they do change from time to time—
for instance, Goo‐
gle has dropped the
link:
keyword. The preceding keywords
are some of the primary
ones that you may use. Keep in mind that generally you can use several of these key‐
words together. You can also use basic search manipulation, including using Boolean
operators. You could use AND or OR, for instance, to tell Google that you want to
include both terms you are looking for (AND) or either term (OR). You can also use
quotes to make sure that you get word patterns in the correct order.
If I wanted to
search for references to the Statue of Liberty, for instance,
I would use the term
“Statue of Liberty,” or else I would get pages that had the words
statue
and
liberty
in
them. This will likely get you a lot of pages you just don’t want.
