MUST KNOW GOOGLE SHORTCUTS

Here are the top Google Shortcuts that any savvy Googler should have under his or her belt. You'll find that using these Google Search Shortcuts will greatly cut down on your Google search time, as well as make your Google searches more effective and more efficient. Google Shortcut: Finds Pages That Have...

1. nokia phone: the words nokia and phone
2. sailing OR boating: either the word sailing or the word boating
3. "love me tender": the exact phrase love me tender
4. printer -cartridge: the word printer but NOT the word cartridge
5. Toy Story +2: movie title including the number 2
6. ~auto: looks up the word auto and synonyms
7. define, serendipity : definitions of the word serendipity
8. how now * cow: the words how now cow separated by one or more words
9. + : addition; 978+456
10. - : subtraction; 978-456
11. * : multiplication; 978*456
12. / : division; 978/456
13. % of percentage : 50% of 100
14. ^ : raise to a power; 4^18 (4 to the eighteenth power)
15. old in new (conversion) : 45 celsius in Fahrenheit
16. site:(search only one website) site: websearch.about.com "invisible web"
17. link:(find linked pages) link:www.lifehacker.com #...#(search within a number range) nokia phone $200...$300
18. daterange:(search within specific date range)
19. bosnia daterange:200508-200510
20. safesearch: (exclude adult content) safesearch:breast cancer
21. info: (find info about a page) info:www.websearch.about.com
22. related: (related pages) related:www.websearch.about.com
23. cache: (view cached page) cache:google.com
24. filetype:(restrict search to specific filetype) zoology filetype:ppt
25. allintitle: (search for keywords in page title) allintitle:"nike" running
26. inurl:(restrict search to page URLs) inurl:chewbacca
27. site:.edu (specific domain search) site:.edu, site:.gov, site:.org, etc.
28. site:country code (restrict search to country) site:.br "rio de Janeiro"
29. intext:(search for keyword in body text) intext:parlor
30. allintext: (return pages with all words specified in body text) allintext:north pole
31. book(search book text) book The Lord of the Rings
32. phonebook:(find a phone number) phonebook:Google CA
33. bphonebook: (find business phone numbers) bphonebook:Intel
34. rphonebook:(find residential phone numbers) rphonebook:Joe Smith Seattle WA
35. movie:(search for showtimes) movie:wallace and gromit 97110
36. stocks:(get a stock quote) stocks:ncesa
37. weather:(get local weather) weather:97132