Below I have compiled a list of 7 clever
Google tricks that I believe everyone should be aware of. Together I
think they represent the apex of the grand possibilities associated with Google search
manipulation tricks 
and hacks. Although
there are many others out there, these 7 tricks are my all-time favorite.
Enjoy yourself.
and hacks. Although
there are many others out there, these 7 tricks are my all-time favorite.
Enjoy yourself.
1. Find the Face Behind the Result – This is a neat trick you can use on a Google
Image search to filter the search results so that they include only images of
people. How is this useful? Well, it could come in handy if you are
looking for images of the prominent people behind popular products, companies,
or geographic locations. You can perform this search by appending the
code &imgtype=face to the end of the URL address after you
perform a standard Google Image search.
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Examples (notice the differences
in each URL):
2. Google + Social Media Sites =
Quality Free Stuff – If you are on the hunt for free
desktop wallpaper, stock images, Wordpress templates or the like, using Google
to search your favorite social media sites is your best bet. The word
“free” in any standard search query immediately attracts spam. Why wade
through potential spam in standard search results when numerous social media
sites have an active community of users who have already ranked and reviewed
the specific free items that interest you. All you have to do is direct
Google to search through each of these individual social media sites, and
bingo… you find quality content ranked by hundreds of other people.
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Examples:
3. Find Free Anonymous Web Proxies – A free anonymous web proxy site allows any web
browser to access other third-party websites by channeling the browser’s
connection through the proxy. The web proxy basically acts as a middleman
between your web browser and the third-party website you are visiting.
Why would you want to do this? There are two common reasons:
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You’re connecting to a public network at a
coffee shop or internet café and you want privacy while you browse the
web. You don’t want the admin to know every site you visit.
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You want to bypass a web content filter or
perhaps a server-side ban on your IP address. Content filtering is common
practice on college campus networks. This trick will usually bypass those
restrictions.
There are subscription services and applications
available such as TOR and paid VPN servers that do the same thing.
However, this trick is free and easy to access from anywhere via Google.
All you have to do is look through the search results returned by the
queries below, find a proxy that works, and enter in the URL of the site you
want to browse anonymously.
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Examples:
4. Google for Music, Videos, and
Ebooks - Google can be used to conduct a
search for almost any file type, including Mp3s, PDFs, and videos. Open
web directories are one of the easiest places to quickly find an endless
quantity of freely downloadable files. This is an oldie, but it’s a
goodie! Why thousands of webmasters incessantly fail to secure their web
severs will continue to boggle our minds.
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Examples:
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Find Music: -inurl:(htm|html|php)
intitle:”index of” +”last modified” +”parent directory” +description +size
+(wma|mp3) “Counting Crows”
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Find Videos: -inurl:(htm|html|php)
intitle:”index of” +”last modified” +”parent directory” +description +size
+(mpg|wmv) “chapelle”
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Find Ebooks: -inurl:(htm|html|php)
intitle:”index of” +”last modified” +”parent directory” +description +size
+(pdf|doc) “george orwell 1984″
5. Browse Open Webcams Worldwide – Take a randomized streaming video tour of the
world by searching Google for live open access video webcams. This may
not be the most productive Google trick ever, but it sure is fun! (Note:
you may be prompted to install an ActiveX control or the Java runtime
environment which allows your browser to view certain video stream formats.)
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Examples:
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Axis Webcams: inurl:/view.shtml or inurl:view/index.shtml
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JVC Webcams: intitle: intitle:”V.Networks
[Motion Picture(Java)]”
6. Judge a Site by its Image – Find out what a site is all about by looking at
a random selection of the images hosted on its web pages. Even if you are
somewhat familiar with the target site’s content, this can be an entertaining
little exercise. You will almost surely find something you didn’t expect
to see. All you have to do is use Google’s site: operator
to target a domain in an image search.
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Examples:
7. Results Based on Third-Party
Opinion - Sometimes you can get a better
idea of the content located within a website by reading how other websites
refer to that site’s content. The allinanchor: Google
search operator can save you large quantities of time when a normal textual
based search query fails to fetch the information you desire. It conducts
a search based on keywords used strictly in the anchor text, or linking text,
of third party sites that link to the web pages returned by the search
query. In other words, this operator filters your search results in a way
such that Google ignores the title and content of the returned web pages, but
instead bases the search relevance on the keywords that other sites use to
reference the results. It can add a whole new dimension of variety to
your search results.
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Examples (notice the added
variety between search results):
Bonus Material:
Here is a list of my favorite Google advanced
search operators, operator combinations, and related uses:
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link:URL = lists other pages that link to the URL.
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related:URL = lists other pages that are related to the URL.
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site:domain.com “search term = restricts search results to the
given domain.
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allinurl:WORDS = shows only pages with all search terms in the
url.
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inurl:WORD = like allinurl: but filters the URL based on the
first term only.
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allintitle:WORD = shows only results with terms in title.
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intitle:WORD = similar to allintitle, but only for the next
word.
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cache:URL = will show the Google cached version of the URL.
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info:URL = will show a page containing links to related
searches, backlinks, and pages containing the url. This is the same as typing
the url into the search box.
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filetype:SOMEFILETYPE = will restrict searches to that filetype
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-filetype:SOMEFILETYPE = will remove that file type from the search.
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site:www.somesite.net
“+www.somesite.net” = shows you how many pages of your
site are indexed by google
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allintext: = searches only within text of pages, but not in
the links or page title
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allinlinks: = searches only within links, not text or title
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WordA OR WordB = search for either the word A or B
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“Word” OR “Phrase” = search exact word or phrase
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WordA -WordB = find word A but filter results that include
word B
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WordA +WordB = results much contain both Word A and Word B
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~WORD = looks up the word and its synonyms
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~WORD -WORD = looks up only the synonyms to
the word
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