Module 6 Search Operators (2) 

4. Search Operators (2) 

This module will further explore more search operators. 

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1. Searching within the range

If you want to search within the range of number, you can use two dots. For example: “laptop
pkr25000.

pkr35000” will try to give those pages which contains laptop options between the specified ranges.

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2. Boolean Operators

We can use Boolean operators specially “And” “Or” to find relevant pages. For example, writing a
query: 

Computer and Science 

Will give you all those pages which have both words but not necessarily they occur together. 

Similarly writing a query: 

Computer Or science 

Will give you those pages in which either the term “computer” is written, or “science” is written. Off
course, it will also return those pages in which both terms are also written. 

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3. Search with a Specific Site

If you are interested to search the query in a website, we can write like: 

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 “virtual university site: youtube.com”

This will give us those pages of virtual university which are contained within the youtube.com
website. 

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4. Searching Related Websites

For example, you like the videos on YouTube and interested to know are there some more websites
like YouTube? you can type the query: 

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 “related:youtube.com” 

Furthermore, you can also search information for a particular website like if you
write:  ü “info:youtube.com”

It will provide the information about this website. 

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5. Searching a cached version

If the website is down and you are interested to see the cached version of the website, you can use the
following query: 

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 cache:youtube.com Searching on a file type

If you are interested to search a query for a specific file type, you can include such file type in the
query. For example, we are interested to search for “virtual university” but all those pages having file
type PDF, so you can write a query: 

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 “Virtual University” filetype:pdf
 “Virtual University” ext:pdf