Shoe, you beat me to it. I love the google operators. I especially like the calculator function, as well as define. Somewhere I thought there was a synonym function also, but oh well.

One thing that would be nice is if they added a few more XXX: type paramaters. I often do searches on book titles and would love it if they had “Shop: XXX” where the results would only show stores with that title. I have a feeling that their searches will continue to get more and more refined over the years to come. I’m already amazed at how easily I find things compared to just a couple of years ago.

Thanks for the info. It’s always nice to learn these little tricks. I’m sure the OR is in Google search instructions somewhere, but I never take the time to read that.

wow - this is very useful! good info shoe!

Some of the stuff you can do with these is crazy… only for the true ninjas

It’s funny how such a simple concept can be so useful and nobody realizes its need until they are presented with it. Thanks for the info.

90%+ people hardly use those functions. But advanced users love those. Thanks for the info.

that’s good info. thanks for the tips!

and dont forget num=xxx for the amount of results you want to show.

SURE you can sneak in num=0 if you want to prove to a client their SEO sucks cause they have no results listed. That’s some slime bag black hat tactics.

That is a great tip. I will definitely start using this today.

While in High School I competed in Science Olympiad and my best event was “Surfing the Net” because I utilized these advanced search functions which are rarely known of by many users.

That is a great info. thanks for the tips!

I love google advanced searching :), saves time when looking for great things.

I’m there with you wishing it would be in their default search, or at worst they should make a webmaster search engine…with all cool features in the search that webmasters want!

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Nice! I didn’t know about the time search. Thanks for the tip!

Shoe,

If you use FF, you could build your own Custom Search. Just build a little search page on your site that appends the daily, weekly, or monthly variable to the querystring and forwards it to Google!

Doug

Thanks for the lesson on the advanced search options. It’s good to be reminded that they exist.

I’m no google search slut, but thats cuz I use the shoemoney Serp Tools baby!

You can also use the date operators together with a site:-query to check how current the indexing of your site is. If your site generally gets indexed quickly but shows nothing for the last week (or month), you’ll want to check your Webmaster Tools account to see if it shows any errors (eg your hoster might be blocking the Googlebot).

Great post, this is good for a lot people since Google does use OR and XOR expressions which can be hard to understand people who don’t take computer engineering in college.

Wow, I’ve noticed BlogRush is back up or was it just down?

Nice one Shoe, I love the OR function but didn’t know about the Date Param thing - good stuff!

thanks for the article. i dig advanced search. makes me feel like a nerd…

Thats many useful informations thanks, searching in google can be een more accurate using tips u wrote over. Thanks

great post - I have used this a lot since i first read it

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