hi does anyone know where there is a comprehensive list of special operators and commands for google? - ei (allinanchor , site: , related etc etc) it would be really useful to have - as i think i only know a few - and i keep forgetting those too!. also a similar list for Yahoo and MSN would be really, really useful too,as i don't know any special commands for those at all. i tried looking on google but have had no luck so far thanks
ha! - isn't it odd how when searching sometimes you can never find the correct phrase to search for - but when you post something up in a forum you suddenly find yourself using the right phrase you were after - "google special operators" -- duh! ok - so my question now is - does anyone know of lists for yahoo and msn special operators (hmm - im thinking i could probably substitute yahoo or msn for google in my search phrase..... ok - does anyone know of any really good totally comprehensive lists ?
OGH has a lot of tips about "undocumented" stuff like julian date range searches and uh... oh, just other stuff that was helpful to me. Can be bought as an ebook. Mel of DP forums had a very useful tip for me, which was stick the @ sign before a domain name and you will find a lot of "low page rank" links to the domain which wouldn't show up with the link syntax. eg search for @yahoo.com I have no idea why this works or where it is documented, and would love it if someone would clear this up. Thomas.
- i found this for google - it seems to have more than the offical google one - http://www.googleguide.com/advanced_operators.html does anyone know of any for Yahoo or MSN ?
The @ sign is ignored, and it looks for the string on the page. A Google search of @yahoo.com is exactly the same as "yahoo.com". Both simply prevent the page page asking if you want info about Yahoo.com. In fact, you can pretty much use any character that isn't indexed... !yahoo.com, yahoo.com#, yahoo.com^, etc... It has nothing to do with the @ and everything to do with it not looking exactly like a domain name.
I just tried with @yahoo and yahoo and you're right, they seem to be the same. However, I am 99.9% sure that I tested this in the past, and did not always get the same results. Usually I got 10% more results with @. But I can't seem to get this effect now, so either I remembered wrong or google fixed it. If anyone else can shed light, would be nice. thomas.