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Google Advanced Search Operators

""	Allows searching for a specific phrase - exact match search. Individual word prevents synonyms	Basic,Mail
OR/AND	Boolean search function for OR searches as Google defaults to AND between words - must be all caps	Basic,Mail
\	Implements OR	Basic
()	Allows grouping of operators and helps dictate order	Basic,Mail
-	Excludes a word from results	Basic,Mail
*	Acts as a wildcard and will match any word or phrase	Basic
#..#	# represents a number in this instance. Use to find numbers in a series.	Basic
$	Allows for search of USD	Basic
€	Allows for search of Euro	Basic
in	Allows searches for unit conversion (currency, unit or measure)	Basic
~	Prefix - Include synonyms (potentially defunct)	Basic
+	Prefix - Force exact match on single phrase	Basic,Mail
AROUND(X)	This is sandwiched between two words and the X declares how many words they must be mentioned between. I.e. if it’s (4) then the two keywords must be mentioned within 4 words of each other.	Advanced
_	Acts as wildcard for autocomplete	Advanced

Search with url

inurl:	Only returns results where the queried keyword(s) is present in the URL	Advanced
allinurl:	As above but only containing all of the specified words in the URL	Advanced
blogurl:	Find blog URLs under a specific domain. This was used in Google blog search, but I’ve found it does return some results in regular search.	Advanced
site:	Limit results to those from one site	Advanced
related:	Find similar domains to the queried domain	Advanced

Search with dates

daterange:	Return results in a specified range (requires julian dates)	Advanced
after:	Allows you to search drive or mail for files modified or mail sent/received anytime after a set date	Drive,Mail
before:	Allows you to search drive or mail for files modified or mail sent/received before a certain date	Drive,Mail
older:	Search for messages older than a certain date	Mail
newer:	Search for messages newer than a certain date	Mail

Search files

filename:	Search for messages with a particular type of file attached, or the exact name of a file	Mail
type:	Allows you to search drive by file type	Drive
owner:	Allows you to search drive by owner of file or folder	Drive
to:	Allows you to search drive for files shared with a specific person	Drive
title:	Searches drive for files with the keyword in their title alone	Drive
source:domain	Allows you to search for files or folders shared with everyone in your business	Drive
filetype:	Returns only files of a particular type associated with the keyword searched	Advanced
ext:	As above, based on extension	Advanced
after:	Allows you to search drive or mail for files modified or mail sent/received anytime after a set date	Drive,Mail
before:	Allows you to search drive or mail for files modified or mail sent/received before a certain date	Drive,Mail
is:trashed	Searches for the item in the Drive bin	Drive

Search with page content

link:	Find pages that link to the target domain	Advanced
inanchor:	Find pages linked to with the specified anchor text/ phrase. Data is heavily sampled.	Advanced
allinanchor:	Find pages with all individual terms after "inanchor:" in the inbound anchor text.	Advanced
intitle:	Returns pages based on the searched query appearing in their title	Advanced
allintitle:	Similar to intitle: but only returns titles where all the words in the title match	Advanced
inposttile:	Finds pages with keywords in their post titles (i.e. for researching blogs)
intext:	Finds pages where the keyword(s) are mentioned within the page content.	Advanced
allintext:	Similar to “intext,” but only results containing all of the specified words somewhere on the page will be returned.	Advanced

Keywords

Business	type E.g. cafe, restaurant, bar etc will return a selection of appropriate businesses in the are	Maps
Petrol/Charging	Station EV near me or perol station near me returns	Maps
Search	for a message with a google sheet attached	Mail
Search	for a message with a google presentation attached	Mail

Search on emails

+	Prefix - Force exact match on single phrase	Basic,Mail
()	Allows grouping of operators and helps dictate order	Basic,Mail
-	Excludes a word from results	Basic,Mail
""	Allows searching for a specific phrase - exact match search. Individual word prevents synonyms	Basic,Mail
OR/AND	Boolean search function for OR searches as Google defaults to AND between words - must be all caps	Basic,Mail
after:	Allows you to search drive or mail for files modified or mail sent/received anytime after a set date	Drive,Mail
before:	Allows you to search drive or mail for files modified or mail sent/received before a certain date	Drive,Mail
is:starred	Searches only items that have been starred in drive	Drive,Mail
from:	Specify the sender in google mail	Mail
to:	Specify the recipient in google mail	Mail
cc:	Search by a recipient that was copied into an email	Mail
bcc:	Search by a recipient that was blind copied into an email	Mail
older:	Search for messages older than a certain date	Mail
newer:	Search for messages newer than a certain date	Mail
Search	for a message with a google sheet attached	Mail
Search	for a message with a google presentation attached	Mail
AROUND	Similar to the normal google search function, allows you to search for keywords near each other.	Mail
subject:	Search by keywords featured in the subject line	Mail
{}	Use for OR in mail instead of the OR function	Mail
label:	Search for messages that have a certain label	Mail
has:attachment	Search for messages that have an item attached	Mail
has:drive	Search for messages with a google drive attached	Mail
has:document	Search for messages with a google doc attached	Mail
has:youtube	Search for a message containing a youtube video	Mail
list:	Search for all messages from a particular mailing list	Mail
in:anywhere	Includes all folders in your search, including spam and bin	Mail
is:important	Search for messages that have been marked as important	Mail
label:important	Same as is:important	Mail
is:snoozed	Searches for messages that have been snoozed	Mail
is:unread	Searches for unread messages	Mail
is:read	searches for read messages only	Mail
has:yellow-star	Searches for messages with coloured star icon	Mail
has:blue-info	Searches for messages with colourd icon	Mail
is:chat	Searches for messagse from chat	Mail
deliveredto:	Search by email address for delivered messages	Mail
category:	Searches by messages based on category. Follow the colon with the categoy name, i.e. category:primary	Mail
size:	Messages larger than a certain size in bytes	Mail
larger:	Messages larger than a certain size in bytes	Mail
smaller:	Messages smaller than a certain size in bytes	Mail
has:userlabels	Search for messages that have custom user labels	Mail
	Search for messages that have no custom user labels	Mail

Some other useful search operators

define:	Pulls a card response from Google displaying the dictionary definition of the word or phrase	Advanced
cache:	Returns the most up to date cache of an indexed web page	Advanced
weather:	Brings up the featured snipped for weather for that location	Advanced
stocks:	Returns stock information for the specified ticker	Advanced
map:	Force google map results for a particular query	Advanced
movie:	Find information for the specified movie (particularly useful when that movie has an ambiguous name). If the movie is still in theatres it’ll also return screen times	Advanced
source:	Use in google news, returns results from the specified source	Advanced
loc:	Returns results for a specific location	Advanced
location:	As above but with Google news	Advanced
info:	Returns information related to a domain (pages with domain text, similar on-site pages, cache etc)	Advanced
near	Part of the google maps lazy searches e.g. book shops near work	Maps