know your google syntax

• +word - force the "word"
• -word - avoid the "word"
• ~word - use also synonims of "word"
• "phrase is enclosed in double quotes"
• OR - is placed in between two words
• conduct a numrange search by specifying two numbers, separated by two periods, with no spaces

Query Modifiers

• site:url - restrict the results to those websites in the given domain
• allintitle:words - restrict the results to those with all of the query words in the title
• intitle:word - restrict the results to resources containing that word in the title
• allinurl:words - restrict the results to those with all of the query words in the url
• inurl:word - restrict the results to documents containing that word in the url

Alternate Query Types

• cache:url term - version of the web page that Google has in its cache
• link:url - list webpages that have links to the specified webpage
• related:url - list web pages that are "similar" to a specified web page
• info:url - some information that Google has about that web page

Information

• define:phrase - a definition of the words you enter after it, gathered from various online sources. The definition will be for the entire phrase entered (i.e., it will include all the words in the exact order you typed them.
• stocks: - Google will treat the rest of the query terms as stock ticker symbols, and will link to a page showing stock information for those symbols.