Advanced Search Made Easy

Advanced Search Made Easy

Once you know the basics of Google search, you might want to try Advanced Search, which offers numerous options for making your searches more precise and getting more useful results.

You can reach this page by clicking (no surprise) the "Advanced Search" link on the Google home page.

Here's what the Advanced Search page looks like:

You can do a lot more with Google search than just typing in search terms. With Advanced Search, you can search only for pages:

• that contain ALL the search terms you type in
• that contain the exact phrase you type in
• that contain at least one of the words you type in
• that do NOT contain any of the words you type in
• written in a certain language
• created in a certain file format
• that have been updated within a certain period of time
• that contain numbers within a certain range
• within a certain domain, or website
• that don't contain "adult" material

Advanced search "operators"

You can also improve your searches by adding "operators" to your search terms in the Google search box, or selecting them from the Advanced Search page.

Advanced search operators include:

• Include Search
• Synonym Search
• OR Search
• Domain Search
• Numrange Search
• Other Advanced Search Features

Complete list of advanced operators
Print-and-save Google Cheat Sheet

"+" search

Google ignores common words and characters such as where, the, how, and other digits and letters which slow down your search without improving the results. We'll indicate if a word has been excluded by displaying details on the results page below the search box.

If a common word is essential to getting the results you want, you can include it by putting a "+" sign in front of it. (Be sure to include a space before the "+" sign.)

For example, here's how to ensure that Google includes the "I" in a search for Star Wars, Episode I:

Synonym search

If you want to search not only for your search term but also for its synonyms, place the tilde sign ("~") immediately in front of your search term.

For example, here's how to search for food facts and nutrition and cooking information:

"OR" search

To find pages that include either of two search terms, add an uppercase OR between the terms.

For example, here's how to search for a vacation in either London or Paris:

Domain search

You can use Google to search only within one specific website by entering the search terms you're looking for, followed by the word "site" and a colon followed by the domain name.

For example, here's how you'd find admission information on the Stanford University site:

Numrange search

Feel like a number? Numrange searches for results containing numbers in a given range. Just add two numbers, separated by two periods, with no spaces, into the search box along with your search terms. You can use Numrange to set ranges for everything from dates ( Willie Mays 1950..1960) to weights ( 5000..10000 kg truck). But be sure to specify a unit of measurement or some other indicator of what the number range represents.

For example, here's how you'd search for a DVD player that costs between $50 and $100:

Other advanced search features

• Google Local: Find products and services in a specific U.S. town or zip code.
• Language: specify in which language you'd like your results.
• Technology Search: find information related to Apple Macintosh, BSD Unix, Linux or Microsoft.
• Date: restrict your results to the past three, six, or twelve month periods.
• Occurrences: specify where your search terms occur on the page - anywhere on the page, in the title, or in the url.
• Domains: search only a specific website, or exclude that site from your search.
• SafeSearch: Eliminates adult sites from search results. [ Learn more. ]

Search Results Page

Search Results Page

Your search results page is packed with information. Here's a quick guide to decoding it.

Each underlined item is a search result that the Google search engine found for your search terms. The first item (not counting News results) is the most relevant match we found, the second is the next-most relevant, and so on down the list.

Clicking on any underlined item will take you to the associated web page. But first, here's a sample search results page, along with brief explanations of the various types of information about your search results that you can find there.

A.	Top links Click the link for the Google service you want to use. You can search the web, look for images, browse Google Groups (Usenet discussion archive), or use Froogle to search for products.
B.	Google search button Click on this button to submit another search query. You can also submit your query by hitting the 'Enter' key.
C.	Advanced search This links to a page on which you can do more precise searches. [ Learn more about Advanced Search ]
D.	Search field To do a search on Google, just type in a few descriptive search terms, then hit “Enter” or click on the “Google Search” button.
E.	Preferences This links to a page that lets you set your personal search preferences, including your language, the number of results per page, and whether you want your search results screened by our SafeSearch filter to avoid seeing adult material.
F.	Statistics bar This line describes your search and indicates the total number of results, as well as how long the search took to complete.
G.	Tip Information that helps you search more efficiently and effectively by pointing out Google features and tools that might improve the query you just made.
H.	OneBox results Google's search technology finds many sources of specialized information. Those that are most relevant to your search are included at the top of your search results. Typical onebox results include news, stock quotes, weather and local websites related to your search.
I.	Page title The first line of any search result item is the title of the web page we found. If you see a URL instead of a title, then either the page has no title or we haven't yet indexed that page's full content, but its place in our index still tells us that it's a good match for your query.
J.	Text below the title This is an excerpt from the result page with your query terms are bolded. If we expanded the range of your search using stemming technology, the variations of your search terms that we searched for will also be bolded.
K.	URL of result This is the web address of the returned result.
L.	Size This number is the size of the text portion of the web page, and gives you some idea of how quickly it might display. You won't see a size figure for sites that we haven't yet indexed.
M.	Cached Clicking this link will show you the contents of the web page when we last indexed it. If for some reason the site link doesn't connect you to the current page, you might still find the information you need on the cached version.
N.	Similar pages When you select the Similar Pages link for a particular result, Google automatically scouts the Web for pages that are related to this result.
O.	Indented result When Google finds multiple results from the same website, the most relevant result is listed first, with other relevant pages from that site indented below it.
P.	More results If we find more than two results from the same site, the remaining results can be accessed by clicking on the "More results from..." link.

Search Preferences

Search Preferences

We want your web search to be exactly the way you want it. Here’s a quick review of the search options you can set (and, of course, revise whenever you like) on your Google Preferences page.

SafeSearch filtering Language options

Number of results New results window

SafeSearch filtering

Many users prefer not to have adult sites included in search results (especially if their kids use the same computer). Google's SafeSearch screens for sites that contain explicit sexual content and deletes them from your search results. No filter is 100% accurate, but SafeSearch should eliminate most inappropriate material.

You can choose from among three SafeSearch settings:

• Moderate filtering excludes most explicit images from Google Image Search results but doesn’t filter ordinary web search results. This is your default SafeSearch setting; you’ll receive moderate filtering unless you change it.

• Strict filtering applies SafeSearch filtering to all your search results (i.e., both image search and ordinary web search).

And finally…

• No Filtering, as you’ve probably figured out, turns off SafeSearch filtering completely.

You can also adjust your SafeSearch settings on the Advanced Search or the Advanced Image Search pages on a per search basis.

We do our best to keep SafeSearch as up-to-date and comprehensive as possible, but inappropriate sites will sometimes slip through the cracks. If you have SafeSearch activated and still find websites containing offensive content in your results, please contact us and we’ll investigate it.

Language options

The value of search is universal, but when it comes to languages, universality means getting specific. Our language search feature lets you search for web pages in the language that you choose. Because these searches only see part of the Web, we suggest using "Search Web pages written in any language" as your default option. Specifying a language can be useful, however, when you want to find content in a particular tongue.

You can also set your preferences to show you the Google homepage, site messages and buttons in a specific language. Below you’ll find the current list of “interface languages” that we offer. If your own preferred language isn’t listed, we encourage you to help us add it to Google by joining our volunteer translator program.

Finally, this isn’t on the preferences page, but while we’re talking languages, we thought we’d mention that our translation software can translate sites published in Italian, French, Spanish, German, and Portuguese into English. Interested? Check out our Language Tools.

Afrikaans Albanian Amharic Arabic Armenian Azerbaijani Basque Belarusian Bengali Bihari Bork, bork, bork! Bosnian Breton Bulgarian Catalan Chinese (Simplified) Chinese (Traditional) Croatian Czech Danish Dutch Elmer Fudd English Esperanto Estonian Faroese

Filipino Finnish French Frisian Galician Georgian German Greek Guarani Gujarati Hacker Hebrew Hindi Hungarian Icelandic Indonesian Interlingua Irish Italian Japanese Javanese Kannada Klingon Korean Kurdish Kyrgyz

Laothian Latin Latvian Lithuanian Macedonian Malay Malayalam Maltese Marathi Mongolian Nepali Norwegian Norwegian (Nynorsk) Occitan Oriya Persian Pig Latin Polish Portuguese (Brazil) Portuguese (Portugal) Punjabi Romanian Russian Scots Gaelic Serbian Serbo-Croatian

Sesotho Sindhi Sinhalese Slovak Slovenian Somali Spanish Sundanese Swahili Swedish Tamil Telugu Thai Tigrinya Turkish Turkmen Twi Uighur Ukrainian Urdu Uzbek Vietnamese Welsh Xhosa Yiddish Zulu

Number of results

Unless you change this preference, you’ll see 10 search results per page. We set it this way because this produces the fastest response time. But if you want to see more results per page, you can increase the number to 20, 30, 50 or 100.

New results window

Ordinarily, when you search with Google, your search page is replaced by a search results page. If you’d prefer to keep your main search page open, you can set this preference option to open your search results in a new browser window.

Basics of Search

The Essentials of Google Search

Doing a search on Google is easy. Simply type one or more search terms (the words or phrase that best describe the information you want to find) into the search box and hit the 'Enter' key or click on the Google Search button.

In response, Google produces a results page: a list of web pages related to your search terms, with the most relevant page appearing first, then the next, and so on.

Here are some basic tips to help you maximize the effectiveness of your search:

Choosing search terms Capitalization Automatic "and" queries

Exclusion of common words Word variations Phrase searches

Negative terms I'm Feeling Lucky

Choosing search terms

Choosing the right search terms is the key to finding the information you need.

Start with the obvious – if you're looking for general information on Hawaii, try Hawaii.

But it's often advisable to use multiple search terms; if you're planning a Hawaiian vacation, you'll do better with vacation Hawaii than with either vacation or Hawaii by themselves. And vacation Hawaii golf may produce even better (or, depending on your perspective, worse) results.

You might also ask yourself if your search terms are sufficiently specific. It's better to search on luxury hotels Maui than on tropical island hotels. But choose your search terms carefully; Google looks for the search terms you chose, so luxury hotels Maui will probably deliver better results than really nice places to spend the night in Maui.

Capitalization

Google searches are NOT case sensitive. All letters, regardless of how you type them, will be understood as lower case. For example, searches for george washington, George Washington, and gEoRgE wAsHiNgToN will all return the same results.

Automatic "and" queries

By default, Google only returns pages that include all of your search terms. There is no need to include "and" between terms. Keep in mind that the order in which the terms are typed will affect the search results. To restrict a search further, just include more terms. For example, to plan a vacation to Hawaii, simply type vacation hawaii.

Automatic exclusion of common words

Google ignores common words and characters such as "where" and "how", as well as certain single digits and single letters, because they tend to slow down your search without improving the results. Google will indicate if a common word has been excluded by displaying details on the results page below the search box.

If a common word is essential to getting the results you want, you can include it by putting a "+" sign in front of it. (Be sure to include a space before the "+" sign.)

Another method for doing this is conducting a phrase search, which simply means putting quotation marks around two or more words. Common words in a phrase search (e.g., "where are you") are included in the search.

For example, to search for Star Wars, Episode I, use:

~ OR ~

Word variations (stemming)

Google now uses stemming technology. Thus, when appropriate, it will search not only for your search terms, but also for words that are similar to some or all of those terms. If you search for pet lemur dietary needs, Google will also search for pet lemur diet needs, and other related variations of your terms. Any variants of your terms that were searched for will be highlighted in the snippet of text accompanying each result.

Phrase searches

Sometimes you'll only want results that include an exact phrase. In this case, simply put quotation marks around your search terms.

Phrase searches are particularly effective if you're searching for proper names ("George Washington"), lyrics ("the long and winding road"), or other famous phrases ("This was their finest hour").

Negative terms

If your search term has more than one meaning (bass, for example, could refer to fishing or music) you can focus your search by putting a minus sign ("-") in front of words related to the meaning you want to avoid.

For example, here's how you'd find pages about bass-heavy lakes, but not bass-heavy music:

Note: when you include a negative term in your search, be sure to include a space before the minus sign.

And finally... "I'm Feeling Lucky"

After you've entered your search terms, you might want to try the "I'm Feeling Lucky" button, which takes you straight to the most relevant website that Google found for your query. You won't see the search results page at all, but if you did, the "I'm Feeling Lucky" site would be listed on top.

For example, if you're looking for the Stanford University homepage, just enter Stanford and click "I'm Feeling Lucky" instead of the Google Search button. Google will take you directly to "www.stanford.edu."

Google Web Search Features

Google Web Search Features

In addition to providing easy access to billions of web pages, Google has many special features to help you to find exactly what you're looking for. Click the title of a specific feature to learn more about it.

	• Book Search	Use Google to search the full text of books.
	• Cached Links	View a snapshot of each page as it looked when we indexed it.
	• Calculator	Use Google to evaluate mathematical expressions.
	• Currency Conversion	Easily perform any currency conversion.
	• Definitions	Use Google to get glossary definitions gathered from various online sources.
	• File Types	Search for non-HTML file formats including PDF documents and others.
	• Froogle	To find a product for sale online, use Froogle - Google's product search service.
	• Groups	See relevant postings from Google Groups in your regular web search results.
	• I'm Feeling Lucky	Bypass our results and go to the first web page returned for your query.
	• Images	See relevant images in your regular web search results.
	• Local Search	Search for local businesses and services in the U.S., the U.K., and Canada.
	• Movies	Use Google to find reviews and showtimes for movies playing near you.
	• Music Search	Use Google to get quick access to a wide range of music information.
	• News Headlines	Enhances your search results with the latest related news stories.
	• PhoneBook	Look up U.S. street address and phone number information.
	• Q&A	Use Google to get quick answers to straightforward questions.
	• Refine Your Search - New!	Add instant info and topic-specific links to your search in order to focus and improve your results.
	• Results Prefetching	Makes searching in Firefox faster.
	• Search By Number	Use Google to access package tracking information, US patents, and a variety of online databases.
	• Similar Pages	Display pages that are related to a particular result.
	• Site Search	Restrict your search to a specific site.
	• Spell Checker	Offers alternative spelling for queries.
	• Stock Quotes	Use Google to get live stock quotes and information.
	• Street Maps	Use Google to find U.S. street maps.
	• Travel Information	Check the status of an airline flight in the U.S. or view airport delays and weather conditions.
	• Weather	Check the current weather conditions and forecast for any location in the U.S.
	• Web Page Translation	Provides you access to web pages in other languages.
	• Who Links To You?	Find pages that point to a specific URL.

Book Search

Google is helping to get the world's information online by bringing books themselves online. Whenever books in our Google Book Search index contain content that matches your search terms, you'll see links to those books under Book Results at the top of your search results page. Click on any book title and you'll see the page in that book which contains your search terms, as well as other information about the title. Click one of the links under "Buy this Book" and you'll go straight to a bookstore selling that book online.

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Cached Links

Google takes a snapshot of each page examined as it crawls the web and caches these as a back-up in case the original page is unavailable. If you click on the "Cached" link, you will see the web page as it looked when we indexed it. The cached content is the content Google uses to judge whether this page is a relevant match for your query.

When the cached page is displayed, it will have a header at the top which serves as a reminder that this is not necessarily the most recent version of the page. Terms that match your query are highlighted on the cached version to make it easier for you to see why your page is relevant.

The "Cached" link will be missing for sites that have not been indexed, as well as for sites whose owners have requested we not cache their content.

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Calculator

To use Google's built-in calculator function, simply enter the calculation you'd like done into the search box and hit the Enter key or click on the Google Search button. The calculator can solve math problems involving basic arithmetic, more complicated math, units of measure and conversions, and physical constants. Try one of the sample expressions below, or refer to our complete instructions for help in building your own.

These sample queries demonstrate the utility and power of this new feature:

• 5+2*2
• 2^20
• sqrt(-4)
• half a cup in teaspoons
• 160 pounds * 4000 feet in Calories

example:

Currency Conversion

To use our built-in currency converter, simply enter the conversion you'd like done into the Google search box and hit "Enter" or click the Google Search button

Here are some sample queries:

• 3.5 USD in GBP
• currency of Brazil in Malaysian money
• 5 British pounds in South Korean money
• 2.2 USD per gallon in INR per litre

example:

Definitions

To see a definition for a word or phrase, simply type the word "define," then a space, and then the word(s) you want defined. If Google has seen a definition for the word or phrase on the Web, it will retrieve that information and display it at the top of your search results.

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You can also get a list of definitions by including the special operator "define:" with no space between it and the term you want defined. For example, the search [define:World Wide Web] will show you a list of definitions for "World Wide Web" gathered from various online sources.

File Types

Google has expanded the number of non-HTML file types searched to 12 file formats. In addition to PDF documents, Google now searches Microsoft Office, PostScript, Corel WordPerfect, Lotus 1-2-3, and others. The new file types will simply appear in Google search results whenever they are relevant to the user query.

Google also offers the user the ability to "View as HTML", allowing users to examine the contents of these file formats even if the corresponding application is not installed. The "View as HTML" option also allows users to avoid viruses which are sometimes carried in certain file formats.

Overall, the additional file types provide Google users a wider view of the content available on the World Wide Web. And Google has plans to keep expanding the range of file types available over time.

For more information about this feature, please read the file type FAQ.

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If you prefer to see a particular set of results with a specific file type (for example, PDF links), simply type filetype:[extension] (for example, filetype:pdf) within the search box along with your search term(s).

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Froogle

If you search for products using Google, you may see relevant product search information and links displayed at the top of your search results. These product search results are linked to the sites of merchants who participate in Froogle, Google's product search service. These results are not advertisements, as participation in Froogle is completely free to merchants.

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Groups

When you search on Google, sometimes you'll see results from Google Groups at the bottom of your search results page. These are messages that users have posted to a discussion group about a topic related to your search. Clicking on one of these results will bring you to the full text of the message on the Google Groups site.

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I'm Feeling Lucky

The "I'm Feeling Lucky™" button takes you directly to the first web page Google returned for your query. You will not see the other search results at all. An "I'm Feeling Lucky" search means you spend less time searching for web pages and more time looking at them.

For example, to find the homepage for Stanford University, simply enter Stanford into the search field and click on the "I'm Feeling Lucky" button. Google takes you directly to "www.stanford.edu", the official homepage of Stanford University.

example:

Are you feeling lucky?

Images

You may occasionally see small images at the top of your Google search results. These are images that we think are relevant to your search terms.

You can also find relevant images by doing a Google Image Search, or by adding words like 'pics' or 'pictures' to your search terms when you do a regular web search.

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Local Search

Google Local enables you to search the entire web for just those stores and businesses in a specific neighborhood. Include a city or zip code in your search and Google displays relevant results from that region at the top of your search results.

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Movies

To find reviews and showtimes for movies playing near you, type "movies", "showtimes" or the name of a current film into the Google search box. If you've already saved your location by using Google Local, the top search result will display showtimes for nearby theaters for the movie you've chosen.

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To find theatres and showtimes near you for a currently playing movie, simply search for the movie’s name.

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Can't remember a movie title, or just looking for something new to see? You can use the "movie:" operator to search for films related to a specific actor, director or plot detail.

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Want to read about the movies you find? Your search results for any film will include an average rating out of 5 stars and several snippets from online reviews, along with links to the reviews themselves. Click the "reviews" link near any title for a complete list of online reviews of this film.

Music Search

Find information about artists, songs, albums and places to buy the music you are looking for. If you enter the name of an artist popular in the U.S. into the search box, we will display user reviews, song titles, stores to purchase the music and other useful information related to that artist at the top of your search results.

example:

	Pixies Albums: Doolittle, Surfer Rosa, Pixies, and more... Songs: Debaser, Wave of Mutilation, Silver, and more...
	More music results for pixies

Click on the link to see more music information about that artist such as related albums, songs, and more.

News Headlines

When searching on Google you may see links at the top of your results marked "News". These links connect you to reports culled from numerous news services Google continuously monitors. The links appear if the terms you enter are words currently in the news and clicking on them will take you directly to the service supplying them.

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PhoneBook

Google has added the convenience of US street address and phone number lookup to the information we provide through our search box. You'll see publicly listed phone numbers and addresses at the top of results pages for searches that contain specific kinds of keywords.

To find listings for a US residence, type any of the following combinations into the Google search box:

• first name (or first initial), last name, city (state is optional)
• first name (or first initial), last name, state
• first name (or first initial), last name, area code
• first name (or first initial), last name, zip code
• phone number, including area code
• last name, city, state
• last name, zip code

To have your residential phone and address information removed from the Google PhoneBook, click here.

Q&A

Want to know the population of Japan? What currency is used in Algeria? The birthplace of Bono? Hit us with a fact-based question or query (like "population of Japan") by typing it into the Google search box. We'll search the web and display the answer at the top of your search results page. We also link to our source for this information so that you can learn even more.

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Refine Your Search

For searches within certain topics, you'll notice links at the top of the search results page that help you quickly narrow your search. These links are labels that have been assigned to certain webpages. Organizations, businesses, and individuals can label websites in the topics they know best. You can subscribe to more of these providers by visiting the Google Co-op directory. example: example: The Google Co-op directory also includes subscribed links, which provide instant information in your search results - things like restaurant reservations, financial info, or even celebrity gossip. Add these services to your Google search by subscribing to the providers of your choice.

Results Prefetching

On some searches, Google automatically instructs your browser to start downloading the top search result before you click on it. If you click on top result, the destination page will load faster than before.

Google uses a special prefetching feature in Firefox and Mozilla web browsers to provide this functionality, so results prefetching is not available in Internet Explorer or other web browsers. You can disable prefetching in your web browser preferences, as described in the Mozilla Prefetching FAQ. In Firefox, you can disable prefetching by doing the following:

1. Type "about:config" the address bar.
2. Scroll down to the setting "network.prefetch-next" and set the value to "False".

With prefetching enabled, you may end up with cookies and web pages in your web browser's cache from web sites that you did not click on since prefetching happens automatically when you view Google search results pages. You can delete these files by clearing your browser's cache and cookies.

If you run a web server, you can find webmaster-specific information about this feature in our Webmaster FAQ.

Search By Number

Parcel tracking IDs, patents and other specialized numbers can be entered into Google's search box for quick access to information about them. For example, typing a FedEx tracking number will return the latest information on your package. Other special search by number types include :

•	UPS tracking numbers	example search: "1Z9999W99999999999"
•	FedEx tracking numbers	example search: "999999999999"
•	USPS tracking numbers	example search: "9999 9999 9999 9999 9999 99"
•	Vehicle ID (VIN) numbers	example search: "AAAAA999A9AA99999"
•	UPC codes	example search: "073333531084"
•	Telephone area codes	example search: "650"
•	Patent numbers	example search: "patent 5123123" Remember to put the word "patent" before your patent number.
•	FAA airplane registration numbers	example search: "n199ua" An airplane's FAA registration number is typically printed on its tail.
•	FCC equipment IDs	example search: "fcc B4Z-34009-PIR" Remember to put the word "fcc" before the equipment ID.

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Are there other types of numbers you'd like Google to search? Please contact us.

Similar Pages

When you click on the "Similar Pages" link for a search result, Google automatically scouts the web for pages that are related to this result.

The Similar Pages feature can be used for many purposes. If you like a particular site's content, but wish it had more to say, Similar Pages can find sites with similar content with which you may be unfamiliar. If you are looking for product information, Similar Pages can find competitive information so you can make direct comparisons. If you are interested in researching a particular field, Similar Pages can help you find a large number of resources very quickly, without having to worry about selecting the right keywords.

The more specialized a page is, the fewer results Google will be able to find for you. For example, Similar Pages may not be able to find related pages for your personal home page if it does not have enough information to authoritatively associate other pages with yours. Also, if companies use multiple URLs for their pages (such as company.com and www.company.com), Similar Pages may have little information on one URL, but lots on the other. In general, however, Similar Pages works well for the majority of web pages.

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Site Search

The word "site" followed by a colon enables you to restrict your search to a specific site. To do this, use the site:sampledomain.com syntax in the Google search box. For example, to find admission information on Stanford's site, enter:

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Spell Checker

Google's spell checking software automatically looks at your query and checks to see if you are using the most common version of a word's spelling. If it calculates that you're likely to generate more relevant search results with an alternative spelling, it will ask "Did you mean: (more common spelling)?". Clicking on the suggested spelling will launch a Google search for that term. Because Google's spell check is based on occurrences of all words on the Internet, it is able to suggest common spellings for proper nouns (names and places) that might not appear in a standard spell check program or dictionary.

Stock Quotes

To use Google to get live stock quotes and information, just enter a ticker symbol into the search box.

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If we recognize the stock ticker you entered, we'll return the stock price, along with an intra-day chart, the daily high and low, and other useful information.

When available, we'll also return quotes from an Electronic Communication Network (ECN), a computerized trading system that reports quotes in real time. (Disclaimer). ECNs also allow trading outside of standard market hours and thus can be a good source for after-hours quotes.

Click on the chart or Google Finance link to see more relevant information from Google Finance or you can go directly to other financial information providers for further information by clicking on the links provided. These financial information providers are selected and ordered based on popularity determined by independent third party audience measurement firms. In addition, we consider important quality factors such as download speed, user interface and functionality. If you'd like to suggest a provider we might include, please contact us.

Street Maps

To use Google to find street maps, enter a U.S. street address, including zip code or city/ state (e.g. 165 University Ave Palo Alto CA), in the Google search box. Often, the street address and city name will be enough.

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When Google recognizes your query as a map request, we'll return links from Google Maps and other high quality map providers that will lead you directly to the relevant map.

Travel Information

To see delays and weather conditions at a particular airport, type the airport's three letter code followed by the word "airport." For example, San Francisco International Airport updates can be found by searching for "sfo airport."

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To check the status of a U.S. flight, type the name of the airline followed by the flight number. For example, to see the status for United Airlines flight 134 search for "United 134."

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Weather

To see weather conditions and a four-day forecast for a particular U.S. location, type "weather," followed by the location. Usually a city name will be enough, but you may also want to include a state or zipcode. For example, to see Palo Alto weather, you could search for "weather palo alto, ca" or "weather palo alto 94301."

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All weather conditions and forecasts are provided by Weather Underground, Inc.

Web Page Translation

Google breaks the language barrier with this translation feature. Using machine translation technology, Google now gives you the ability to access web pages in languages other than your own. Currently, Google offers the following translation pairs: English to and from Arabic, Chinese, French, German, Italian, Korean, Japanese, Spanish, and Portuguese; and German to and from French.

If your search results contain a page in one of these languages, and we support your translation pair, you can translate that page into your language with a single click.

For more information about this feature, please read the translation FAQ.

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Who Links To You?

Some words, when followed by a colon, have special meanings to Google. One such word for Google is the link: operator. The query link:siteURL shows you pages that point to that URL. For example, link:www.google.com will show you pages that point to Google's home page. You cannot combine a link: search with a regular keyword search.