The following search operators can be used within Google to further refine results.
| Operators & Meaning | Example |
| safesearch: Excludes adult content |
safesearch:sex education (Will search for sex education and block adult content.) |
| intext: Searches the body of the text only |
Intext:colonial Latin America (Will search for “Colonial Latin American” in the body of the text and not in links, URL’s, titles, etc.) |
| link: linked pages |
link:http://www.loc.gov/index.html (Finds pages that link to the Library of Congress.) |
| site: limit to a particular domain |
“breast cancer” site:.edu (Limits results to just those found on .edu websites.) |
| filetype: links to file type specifications |
budget filetype:pdf (Find annual reports in pdf format) |
| allintitle: title search |
allintitle:“breast cancer” (Search for titles that contain the phrase “breast cancer.”) |
| inurl: OR allinurl: URL search |
inurl:"medieval Europe" OR allinurl:“medieval Europe” (Will result in URL’s that contain “medieval Europe” only.) |
| define: definition of a word |
define:compost (Definition of the word compost.) |
| related: Related items searched |
related:foxnews.com (Searches websites similar to the one in the search.) |