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title: "Google Search Operators — The Complete List for Power Users"
language: en
topics: ["data", "howto", "web"]
full_article_url: https://willem.com/en/2019-04-25_search-like-a-pro-google-search-operators/
---
# Google Search Operators — The Complete List for Power Users

*site:, filetype:, intitle:, cache: — every operator explained.*

> Most people type words into Google. Power users use search operators to find exactly what they need.

## The essential operators:

- `site:example.com` — search only within one website

- `filetype:pdf` — find only PDF documents

- `intitle:"exact phrase"` — pages with exact phrase in title

- `inurl:keyword` — pages with keyword in URL

- `-keyword` — exclude results

- `"exact phrase"` — find exact string

- `cache:url` — view cached version

**Combinations:** `site:github.com filetype:md "setup guide"` finds Markdown guides on GitHub. `intitle:review "tudor black bay" -youtube` finds written reviews only.

Willem uses these daily for research and finding documentation buried in large sites.