Google Search

Operators
Cheat Sheet
by SEMrush
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Operators Cheat Sheet 2

Deprecating?
No. Operator What does it do? Category These ones can
be unreliable

1 “” Allows searching for a specific phrase - exact match Basic, Mail

search. Individual word prevents synonyms

2 OR Boolean search function for OR searches as Google Basic, Mail

defaults to AND between words - must be all caps

3 | Implements OR Basic

4 () Allows grouping of operators and helps dictate order Basic, Mail

5 - Excludes a word from results Basic, Mail

6 * Acts as a wildcard and will match any word or phrase Basic

7 #..# # represents a number in this instance. Use to find Basic

numbers in a series.

8 $ Allows for search of USD Basic

9 € Allows for search of Euro Basic

10 in Allows searches for unit conversion (currency, unit or Basic

measure)

11 ~ Prefix - Include synonyms (potentially defunct) Basic

12 + Prefix - Force exact match on single phrase Basic, Mail

13 daterange: Return results in a specified range (requires julian Advanced

dates)

14 link: Find pages that link to the target domain Advanced

15 inanchor: Find pages linked to with the specified anchor text/ Advanced
phrase. Data is heavily sampled.

16 allinanchor: Find pages with all individual terms after "inanchor:" Advanced
in the inbound anchor text.

17 inposttile: Finds pages with keywords in their post titles

(i.e. for researching blogs)

18 define: Pulls a card response from Google displaying Advanced

the dictionary definition of the word or phrase
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Deprecating?
No. Operator What does it do? Category These ones can
be unreliable

19 cache: Returns the most up to date cache of an indexed web Advanced

page

20 filetype: Returns only files of a particular type associated with Advanced

the keyword searched

21 ext: As above, based on extension Advanced

22 site: Limit results to those from one site Advanced

23 related: Find similar domains to the queried domain Advanced

24 intitle: Returns pages based on the searched query appearing Advanced

in their title

25 allintitle: Similar to intitle: but only returns titles where all Advanced
the words in the title match

26 inurl: Only returns results where the queried keyword(s) is Advanced

present in the URL

27 allinurl: As above but only containing all of the specified words Advanced
in the URL

28 intext: Finds pages where the keyword(s) are mentioned Advanced

within the page content.

29 allintext: Similar to “intext,” but only results containing all Advanced

of the specified words somewhere on the page will be
returned.

30 AROUND(X) This is sandwiched between two words and the X Advanced

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.

31 weather: Brings up the featured snipped for weather Advanced

for that location

32 stocks: Returns stock information for the specified ticker Advanced

33 map: Force google map results for a particular query Advanced

34 movie: Find information for the specified movie (particularly Advanced

useful when that movie has an ambiguous name).
If the movie is still in theatres it’ll also return screen
times
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Deprecating?
No. Operator What does it do? Category These ones can
be unreliable

35 source: Use in google news, returns results from Advanced

the specified source

36 _ Acts as wildcard for autocomplete Advanced

37 blogurl: Find blog URLs under a specific domain. This was Advanced
used in Google blog search, but I’ve found it does
return some results in regular search.

38 loc: Returns results for a specific location Advanced

39 location: As above but with Google news Advanced

40 info: Returns information rlated to a domain (pages with Advanced

dmain text, similar on-site pages, cache etc)

41 near Part of the google maps lazy searches e.g. book Maps
shops near work

42 Business type E.g. cafe, restaurant, bar etc will return a selection Maps
of appropriate businesses in the are

43 Petrol/Charging EV near me or perol station near me returns Maps

Station

44 type: Allows you to search drive by file type Drive

45 owner: Allows you to search drive by owner of file Drive

or folder

46 after: Allows you to search drive or mail for files modified or Drive, Mail
mail sent/received anytime after a set date

47 before: Allows you to search drive or mail for files modified or Drive, Mail
mail sent/received before
a certain date

48 to: Allows you to search drive for files shared with Drive
a specific person

49 title: Searches drive for files with the keyword Drive

in their title alone

50 source:domain Allows you to search for files or folders shared with Drive
everyone in your business

51 is:trashed Searches for the item in the Drive bin Drive

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Deprecating?
No. Operator What does it do? Category These ones can
be unreliable

52 is:starred Searches only items that have been starred Drive, Mail
in drive

53 from: Specify the sender in google mail Mail

54 to: Specify the recipient in google mail Mail

55 cc: Search by a recipient that was copied into Mail

an email

56 bcc: Search by a recipient that was blind copied into Mail

an email

57 subject: Search by keywords featured in the subject line Mail

58 {} Use for OR in mail instead of the OR function Mail

59 AROUND Similar to the normal google search function, allows Mail

you to search for keywords near each other.

60 label: Search for messages that have a certain label Mail

61 has:attachment Search for messages that have an item attached Mail

62 has:drive Search for messages with a google drive attached Mail

63 has:document Search for messages with a google doc attached Mail

64 Search for a message with a google sheet attached Mail

65 Search for a message with a google presentation Mail

attached

66 has:youtube Search for a message containing a youtube video Mail

67 list: Search for all messages from a particular mailing list Mail

68 filename: Search for messages with a particular type of file Mail

attached, or the exact name of a file

69 in:anywhere Includes all folders in your search, including spam and Mail
bin
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Operators Cheat Sheet 6

Deprecating?
No. Operator What does it do? Category These ones can
be unreliable

70 is:important Search for messages that have been marked as Mail

important

71 label:important Same as is:important Mail

72 is:snoozed Searches for messages that have been snoozed Mail

73 is:unread Searches for unread messages Mail

74 is:read searches for read messages only Mail

75 has:yellow-star Searches for messages with coloured star icon Mail

76 has:blue-info Searches for messages with colourd icon Mail

77 older: Search for messages older than a certain date Mail

78 newer: Search for messages newer than a certain date Mail

79 is:chat Searches for messagse from chat Mail

80 deliveredto: Search by email address for delivered messages Mail

81 category: Searches by messages based on category. Follow Mail

the colon with the categoy name, i.e. category:primary

82 size: Messages larger than a certain size in bytes Mail

83 larger: Messages larger than a certain size in bytes Mail

84 smaller: Messages smaller than a certain size in bytes Mail

85 has:userlabels Search for messages that have custom user labels Mail

86 Search for messages that have no custom user labels Mail