Extreme Googling 2005 - This material has been created by Joe Barker for the Infopeople Project [infopeople.org], supported by the U.S. Institute of
Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act, administered in California by the State Librarian. Any
use of this material should credit the author and funding source.
Cheat Sheet #3
Limit Commands in Google
MIXING LIMIT COMMANDS: You can combine or mix most limit commands with other limit
commands and/or search terms. You can use Boolean operators, and phrases to do this. However,
you cannot mix anything except site: with commands that apply to all terms that follow the command
(e.g., allintitle: allinurl:).
Limit/Focus
Commands
Suggested Uses
& Limitations:
Examples:
intitle:
Requires terms to occur in the<Title>
field, part of the HTML <Head> or
top section.
Finds pages likely to be focused on your
terms.
• intitle:"sea level" rise california
• intitle:"global warming" intitle:"sea
level" california
• intitle:"global warming" site:epa.gov
–site:com
allintitle:
Requires all terms that follow to be in
title field. Equivalent of repeating
intitle: before all terms.
Words may be in any order unless
quotes are used to force phrases.
Focuses narrowly on pages about the
terms used.
• allintitle: global warming sea level rise
• allintitle: global warming "sea level
rise"
inurl:
Requires terms to be in URLs.
Can be used with or without quotes, and
repeated.
URL punctuation is ignored.
Usually finds pages focused very
specifically on terms.
• inurl:"joe barker" finds pages with these
two in URLs, allowing any punctuation.
• inurl:joe barker finds pages with joe in
URLs, and barker somewhere in the
document.
allinurl:
Requires all terms to occur somewhere
in URLs, in any order.
• allinurl: infopeople training finds pages
like www.infopeople.org/training/
site:
Must be followed by all or the last part
of the top level of a URL, which
identifies a "site." Must inc