10 tips for improving Google search results

Keyword definition

Define:[keyword] operator provides definitions for words, phrases, and acronyms from the Web.
For example:
define:durian will get you a list of durian definitions.

File type

[keyword] filetype:[filetype extension]. find  documents of the specified type, as in durian filetype:pdf.

Image search

Google Image search, you can narrow down the images according to Size, Color and content type whether its News, Faces, Clip art, Line drawing or Photo. Now let’s do image search of durian.

Glossary

To look for glossaries, as well as dictionaries, lists of terms, terminology, etc. use tilde(~) before keyword, as in ~durian.

Phrase

To look for exact phrases, put them in quotes as in “heavenly durian”
 or “durian stinks” .

Site page listing

Enough about durian. To show all webpages in a website or domain, use
site:[domain] operator, as in
site:www.tourismmalaysia.gov.my. You can use this method to check whether or not all of your pages are indexed by Google.

In-site search

To search inside a specific website, just add the keyword before site:

 operator, as in kelantan site:www.tourismmalaysia.gov.my.

Cached pages

To display Google's cached version of a web page  use cache: operator, as in

cache:http://codecrowd.blogspot.com/.
This is especially useful if you want to recover deleted pages.

Link listing

To show webpages that link to a site use link: as in

link:www.tourismmalaysia.gov.my.

Keyword exclusion

To exclude certain keyword from result pages use [keyword] –[excluded keyword]

, as in Barack –Obama.