Bing Search Guide: https://www.bruceclay.com/blog/bing-google-advanced-search-operators/
| Example | What It Does |
|---|---|
| contains:gif | Keeps results focused on sites that have links to the file types that you specify |
| ext: docx | Returns only web pages with the file extension that you specify |
| filetype: pdf | Returns only web pages created in the file type that you specify |
| intitle: 2019 inbody: wimbledon | Returns only web pages that contain the specified term in the metadata |
| ip: 207.241.148.80 | Finds sites that are hosted by a specific IP address |
| Language: fr | Returns only web pages for a certain language (requires the language code) |
| loc: US | Returns only web pages from a specific country/region. To focus on two or more, use a logical OR to group them (requires the country or region code) |
| prefer: history | Adds emphasis to a search term or another operator to help focus the results |
| site: site.com | Returns web pages that belong to a specific website. Also works for TLDs (such as site:edu) |
| feed: Technology | Finds RSS or Atom feeds about the search term |
| site: site.com hasfeed: world | Finds web pages that contain an RSS or Atom feed on a website for the terms you search for |
| url: site.com | Checks whether the domain or URL is in the Bing index |
Source: https://www.lifewire.com/bing-advanced-search-3482817
Advanced Search Page: https://www.google.co.uk/advanced_search
Linked examples: https://moz.com/learn/seo/search-operators
PDF Guide: http://www.googleguide.com/print/adv_op_ref.pdf
{% hint style="info" %} Google has a large variety of search operators. It would be advisable to download and consult the above linked PDF. {% endhint %}
Search Syntax: https://help.duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/results/syntax/
| Example | Result |
|---|---|
| cats dogs | Results about cats or dogs |
| "cats and dogs" | Results for exact term "cats and dogs". If no results are found, we'll try to show related results. |
| cats -dogs | Fewer dogs in results |
| cats +dogs | More dogs in results |
| cats filetype: pdf | PDFs about cats. Supported file types: pdf, doc(x), xls(x), ppt(x), html |
| dogs site: example.com | Pages about dogs from example.com |
| cats -site: example.com | Pages about cats, excluding example.com |
| intitle: dogs | Page title includes the word "dogs" |
| inurl: cats | Page url includes the word "cats" |
| !safeon | Append to search to turn on Safe Search |
| !safeoff | Append to search to turn off Safe Search |