How Do You Use Google’s Search Operators?

How do you use search operators, i.e., query words that have special meaning? Do you use the number range search to find a date you cannot remember (e.g., [ Chester Arthur inaugurated 1800..1900 ]), or, use allintext: to find documents in which your search terms always appear in the text of the pages included in Google’s results?

Submit one or more of your effective, clever, and/or innovative queries together with a description of how each works. Visit the Google Guide Cheat Sheet to see our current examples of queries that use search operators.

Winning entries will be listed in our Cheat Sheet or the Google Guide online tutorial. The author of each winning query will receive a Google Guide coffee mug and an acknowledgment in Google Guide.

Google has many undocumented search operators! Feel free to send us search examples of any operators that are missing from our Google Guide Cheat Sheet .

This contest was conceived by Natasha Bergson-Michelson.

Go to www.googleguide.com/operators_contest/ for the contest rules and submission form.

Rules: All submissions must be received by the the last day of the month to be considered for the contest for the following month.
All submissions become property of Google Guide.
Starting no later than January 2008, we will select at least 3 winning queries/month.
Google Guide will award at least 20 Google Guide mugs by December 2008. Any individual may only win at most one Google Guide mug/month.
Anyone except the authors of Google Guide and their family members may submit one or more entries.
Entries may be published in Google Guide under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial License.
Google Guide reserves the right not to publish any entry.

Submission Form:

To submit your examples, please copy the following entry form (with your mouse) and paste it into an email message, then fill it out and send it to opscontestATgoogleguideDOTcom (replace AT with @ and DOT with .).

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