Google Search Tips

Restricts search to a particular domain or website

• No space between site: and search term
• Search for .gov, .edu, .org
• Search within a country's domain
  • Find a list of country codes

Find volunteer opportunities in your city

volunteering Austin site:.org

Find mortgage information from the government

mortgage site:.gov

Find software jobs in China

software jobs site:.cn

This will display the definition of the word. 

• No space between define: and search term

Find definition of revenue cycle

define:revenue cycle

Restricts search to specific file type.

• No space between filetype: and search term
• Helpful when looking for full-text articles or forms. 
• Find a list of file types searched by Google

Find examples of hospital in-take forms

hospital in-take filetype:PDF 

double quotation marks

"  ...."

Exact phrase search

• Searches for words in the order typed

Find lyrics to a song or book and movie titles

"There's nothing you can do that can't be done"

"Star Wars the last jedi" 

Search for a range of numbers

• number...number

Find real estate between $20,000 and $120,000

$20,000...$120,000 real estate

Find laptops with various screen sizes

14inch...17inch laptops

Find medical breakthrough timeline

"medical breakthrough" 1920...1960

Restricts results to pages that have the search term in the URL

• No space between inurl: and search term

Find mention of carbon in a website that contains the term science direct

carbon inurl:sciencedirect

Displays current stock quotes

• No space between stock: and ticker symbol
• Search for stock ticker symbols

Find the current stock quote for Apple, Inc

stock:AAPL