Basic understanding of Boolean strings on Google:
AND Search
(Fetches all the results in keywords) EX: JAVA AND SQLGoogle understands as SPACE
Ex: Instead of Searching for JAVA AND SQL you can search for JAVA SQL.
OR Search
(Fetches any of the results in keywords) EX: JAVA OR SQLGoogle understands as " | "
Ex: Instead of Searching for JAVA OR SQL you can search for (JAVA | SQL)
NOT Search
(Excludes keywords from results) EX: NOT .NetGoogle understands as " - " Ex: Instead of Searching for (JAVA OR SQL) NOT .Net you can search for (JAVA | SQL) -.Net
~ Similar Search
(Search for Synonym's) EX: Resume, CV, Profile, Curriculum Vitae
Google understand as " ~ " EX: To search for Resume, profile USE: ~Resume ~Profile
" " Phrase Search
(Search for complete phrase) EX: "JAVA Developer"Words entered in double quotes will appear together as it is in all results.
"*" Asterisk in Search Works like fill in the blanks
EX: "4 * Years" - Fetches the results like "4 plus years" OR "4+ years"
( ) Set Search(Get results from different sets)
EX: Lets suppose
Set 1 = (AVP OR "Assistant Vice President")
Set 2 = (Finance OR Accounts OR CA)Now when we search for Set 1 AND Set 2 results i.e.: (AVP OR "Assistant Vice President") AND (Finance OR Accounts OR CA) it will fetch results as any of the keyword from Set 1 and any of the keyword from Set 2
Occurrences:
Specify where your search terms occur on the page - anywhere on the page, in the title, in the url, in the text or in the link of the page.
To occur in title of page use intitle:EX: intitle:resume
To occur in URL of page use inurl:EX: inurl:resume
To occur in text of page use intext:EX: intext:"Java Developer"
File format:
To get the specific "File Format' results
(EX: Word or PDF document)
Use: filetype:doc for Doc file results, similarly use filetype:pdf for PDF file results
OR
Use: ext:doc OR ext:pdf OR ext:xls
File types indexed by Google :
Adobe Portable Document Format
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pdf
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Adobe Postscript
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ps
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Corel WorldPerfect
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wp
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DBase
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dbf
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Lotus1-2-3
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wk1, wk2, wk3, wk4, wk5, wki, wks, wku
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Lotus WordPro
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lwp
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Mac Write
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mw
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Microsoft Excel
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xls
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Microsoft Word
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doc
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Microsoft PowerPoint
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ppt
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Rich Text Format (RTF)
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rtf
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Microsoft Write
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wri
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Text
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txt, ans
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Works Spreadsheet
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wps
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Works Database
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wdb
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WorksText
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wks
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WordStar
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ws
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Domain restriction or X-Ray search:
To get the results from a specific website:
Use: site:
EX: site:linkedin.com
site:plus.google.com
site:resumebucket.com
site:about.me
".." Number Range Search:
To get the results within the specific given number range (Any number range - Date, Years, Experience, Age, Height, Weight, ZIP...etc)
EX: 5..15 Years experience (For experience range)
2011..2014 (For date range)
25..55 Years age (For Age range)
94101..94199 (For Zip code - to fetch local results of San Francisco, CA)
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