Advanced search technics

Hello, there are millions of advanced searchers nowdays, but amazingly I was found that most of my friends (even working at hi-tech companies - engineers, programmers) dont know how to find something that not trivial.

Please share your google search techniques - how to start, what to do if it not in first search pages, how do you find some type of information and so on. Web search guide books are really sucks.

 

G Index search
site:yoursite.com

Will give number of pages indexed on G

 

Here is some more:
site: Indexed pages in your site site:www.domain.com
allinurl: Pages that refer to your site's URL allinurl:www.domain.com
link: Pages that link to your site link:www.domain.com
cache: The current cache of your site cache:www.domain.com
info: Information we have about your site info:www.domain.com
related: Pages that are similar to your site

 

if you are using firefox, this will surely solve all your problems.

http://www.quirk.biz/searchstatus/

 

I use nearly all operators of Google searches and at ask.com in my 24 hours day.

 

Anyone know how to find all the pages from a site that are NOT supplemental?

Thanks!

 

Here is my own trick:
when i search for movie or music download and i want to save my time, i use
"name_of_the_movie filefactory" or "name_of_the_movie rapidshare" in google.
(name_of_the_movie is what i search for)
It allways works cause most of those downloads are on these file storage sites

 

Just a bit off topic but advanced search operators are a field where yahoo is much better than Google for the simple reason that it allows the combination of two search operators while Google doesn't.

For example, let's say that I want to find the .edu backlinks of a site
With yahoo I can do a search like this and find what I am looking for while google doesn't return any results

 

here is a complete list of all the advanced operators used in Google, the majority of them work on the other search engines too http://www.google.com/help/operators.html

edit - Arg! can't post links yet

 

I just use THIS

 

i use yahoo to check how many backlinks domain has.

linkdomain: domain.com

 

lol, careful when checking back links, for those that don't know, when doing the linK:www. domain.com operator Google only shows a percentage of links to the site when doing that and MSN makes a number up! try it, remember that number then click through to page 10 or summit and watch it drop lol

alltheweb.com and Yahoo are the most reliable

 

great tips, thanks, I never knew about the related:www.url.com operator before

 

This will help you to see what pages are in the suplimental results

"site:www.mattcutts.com ***"