After going through the basic methods of enhance our Google Search, we are going to look into some other methods which are not publicly found anywhere.
Using intitle
The intitle keyword can be used to find out which website has exactly the same title. The results can help you identify who has exactly copied your content including the title or to understand the uniqueness of your title among all the indexed results.
Using double quotes is not sufficient to get the result appear as the title. Instead, it looks for content containing exactly the keywords within the quotes.
Search an article with title ‘Shopee set mass layoffs’
Adding the intitle search term helps to scope down the search result to those which appear as title only.
The intitle keywords narrow down the result from 748 to 9 results
Looking for a file, documentation or a form
You know there is a pdf file provided by the website, but it is difficult to find it from the search results. Hence we use filetype to select only the results that point you to the direct file.
The filetype keyword filtered only the result which directly link to the pdf files. For example I am looking for a sample of job application form in PDF format. I typed Job application form filetype:pdf
Looking for a sample job application form in PDF format
Inurl to find results containing the keywords in the url
There are cases where we would like to find the about page of a website. Without navigating one page to the other page, one can try his luck, assuming the about page has a url containing ‘about’. We can use the inurl keywords to filter pages that contain the keywords ‘about’ in the url.
Looking the about page on Tech In Asia
So we have introduced another three search keywords to use in search. You may want to use more than one keyword to get a more precise result. For eg: site:facebook.com OR site:twitter.com intitle:taylor swift intitle:Joe Alwyn.
Try it out yourself! 😀