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Globalization: Other Searching

Country

a map of the world

Search term: ______Site: [country top level domain]

What it does: searches only websites that end in a country top level domain
What to type:   economy site: au
What you’ll get:  references to the economy fond on .au sites (Australia)

Asterisk

*

What it does:  Works like a wild card within searches

What to Type:   where there's a * there's a way

What you will get:  Websites that contain where there's a will, there's a way, and any other any letter, letters, word or words between the a  and there's.

Search for Word in the title

intitle

What it does:  Searches websites that contain the search term in the title of the page

What to Type:   intitle:Titanic,    

What you will get:  Websites contain the word Titanic in the title of the page.

 

Search for all words in the title

allintitle

What it does:  Searches websites that contains all the search terms in the title of the page 

What to Type:   allintitle:global warming,     

What you will get:  Websites contain the words global warming in the title of the page,

inurl

inurl

What it does:  Searches websites that contain the search term in the URL

What to Type:   inurl:Titanic

What you will get:  Websites contain the word Titanic in the URL

allinurl

allinurl

What it does:  Searches websites that contains all the search terms in URL of the page 

What to Type:   allinurl:global warming

What you will get:  Websites contain the words global warming in the URL of the page