The below information is pruned down the original source.
| Search within a specific site or domain |
site:
| Use the site: operator to search for information within a specific website or type of site (.org, .edu).
[ site: linkedin.com] or [ site: edu]
| Placeholder / Fill in the blank |
query * query
| Use an asterisk (*) as a placeholder for any unknown or “wildcard†terms. Results will vary depending on its use, how Google has indexed the content of the page or what Google feels is relevant.
[“senior * recruiter”] will include results for [senior technical recruiter]
[“senior * * recruiter”] will include results for [senior interactive marketing recruiter]
| Search for a specific term within the Title of a website |
intitle:
| Place intitle: immediately in front of your query to search for a specific term or phrase within the Title of a website or page.
[ intitle: resume] or [ intitle:“resume software engineer”]
| Search for terms within the URL of a website |
inurl:
| Search for a specific term or terms within the URL of a website. |
[ inurl: resume]
Tip: The query must be a complete or whole term, meaning that you cannot extract a term from a string of consecutive letters or numbers.
| Search for pages with links |
link:
| Use the link: operator to search websites or pages that contain links to another page or website.
[ link: google.com]
| Search by file type |
filetype:
| Use the filetype: operator to search for specific types of files, such as PDFs, DOCs, or XLS
[ filetype: pdf]
| \Find related websites |
related:
| Use the related: operator to find sites that have similar content by typing related: immediately in front of a website URL.
[related:jigsaw.com]
| Exclude a word or phrase |
-query
| Add a dash (-) immediately in front of a word to exclude all results that include that word.
[-job -jobs]
You can also exclude results based on other operators, like excluding all results from a specific site.
[developer -site:linkedin.com]
| Include similar words with the Tilde |
~query
| At times, Google may replace some words in your original search query with synonyms. To tell Google that you want synonyms included, add a tilde sign (~) immediately in front of a word to search for that word as well as synonyms.
[ software ~engineer] will also include results for [software developer]
| Search for all words |
query query
query AND query
| To search for pages that need to have all words, include AND (capitalized) or a space between the words. Google assumes AND when there is simply a space between terms.
[software engineer “seattle washington”] or [software AND engineer AND “seattle washington”]
| Search for either word |
| _query | query_ |
query OR query
| To search for pages that need to have only one of several words, include OR | |
| (capitalized) or a pipe ( | ) between the words. |
[software engineer seattle | “san francisco”] or [software engineer seattle OR “san francisco”]
| Search for a number range |
number..number
| Separate numbers by two periods (with no spaces) to see results that contain numbers in a given range.
[50..300 connections]
Tip: Use only one number with the two periods to indicate an upper maximum or a lower minimum.
My original site was based on Google Sites. This section contains some useful tidbits I accumulated during its creation.
I converted my google site to Jekyll using the instructions from
Note that I:
I had an inordinate number of struggles getting a custom domain set up with Google Sites and DreamHost. This was only exacerbated by the lack of comprehensible resources on the issue. To save myself and others from this in the future, I present the following steps: