Google Search Operators & Punctuation & symbols

Have you ever known Google search engine consist of  some search operators, punctuation, and symbols?

Some of you have heard about it but have never used it to filter your search result.

In this post, we will introduce some awesome operators we can use to filter our search in order to get specific results. In spite of using those operators, punctuation, and symbols, it does not guarantee that it will always enhance the search results.

Punctuation & symbols

Symbol	How to use it
+	Search for Google+ pages or blood types Examples: +Chrome or  AB+
@	Find social tags Example: @agoogler
$	Find prices Example: nikon $400
#	Find popular hashtags for trending topics Example: #throwbackthursday
-	When you use a dash before a word or site, it excludes sites with that info from your results. This is useful for words with multiple meanings, like Jaguar the car brand and jaguar the animal. Examples: jaguar speed -car or pandas -site:wikipedia.org
"	When you put a word or phrase in quotes, the results will only include pages with the same words in the same order as the ones inside the quotes. Only use this if you're looking for an exact word or phrase, otherwise you'll exclude many helpful results by mistake. Example: "imagine all the people"
*	Add an asterisk as a placeholder for any unknown or wildcard terms. . Example: "a * saved is a * earned"
..	Separate numbers by two periods without spaces to see results that contain numbers in a range. Example: camera $50..$100

Search Operator

Operator	How to use it
site:	Get results from certain sites or domains. Examples: olympics site:nbc.com and olympics site:.gov
link:	Find pages that link to a certain page. Example: link:youtube.com
related:	Find sites that are similar to a web address you already know. Example: related:time.com
OR	Find pages that might use one of several words. Example: marathon OR race
info:	Get information about a web address, including the cached version of the page, similar pages, and pages that link to the site. Example: info:google.com
cache:	See what a page looks like the last time Google visited the site. Example: cache:washington.edu