- : execludes a term.
Search for Elon Musk but exclude the terms tesla or SpaceX
elon musk -tesla -SpaceX
| : search for x or y.
Search for apples or oranges (see images)
fruits(apple | orange)
AND : search for x and y
Search for apples and oranges (see images)
fruits(apple AND orange)
* : wildcard
Matches everything, search for any type of pet
pet *
filetype: : restrict results searches to a filetype
Search for articles only in PDF
deeplearning articles filetype: pdf
site: : limit results to those of a specific site
Search for getting today's date in Java, results only from stackoverflow
java get date site: stackoverflow.com
define: : search stricly for definitions
Search for definitions of the word programmer
define: programmer
before: : search for results before a certain date
Search : for JavaScript before the year 2000
javascript before:2000
intext: : search for results that have a term in a page's content
See also
allintext
intitle:: search for results with specific page's title
Search for conspiracy theories about climate change
intitle: climate change is a hoax
inurl: : search for results with url term in them
Search for iPhone on website with apple in url
iphones inurl:apple
Nice ! Some of them might definitely be useful :)
But shouldn't
"java get date :site stackoverflow.com"
be
"java get date site: stackoverflow.com"
instead ?
( s/:site/site: )