- Requiring or excluding text
- For text that must be included in the search, put it in quotes even if it is just a single word. (This used to be done by putting a plus sign (+) in front of the text.)
- To specify words that you want to exclude from the search, put a minus sign (-) in front of the word. Any hits that include this text will be excluded from your results list.
- Dates
- To specify a range of years, use ... -- for example, 1920...1950
- Semi-colon terms
- link: - to find websites that link to the specified website -- for example: link: http://www.mywebsite.com
- related: - to find websites related to the specified website -- for example: related: http://www.mywebsite.com
- site: - to find keywords in a website that does not have a search box -- for example: keywords site: http://www.mywebsite.com
- Setting Alerts for searches
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