Google Adds Title Syntax (Finally) And URL Syntax

So Google last week sent out this big braggy press release about how everyone adores them. They skipped the REAL news: Google now partially supports title and URL special syntaxes.

The title special syntax is allintitle:. So if you want to find ResearchBuzz in a title, the query looks like this:

allintitle:researchbuzz

However, once you've used that special syntax, you can't use anything else. For example, if I tried this query:

researchbuzz allintitle:researchbuzz

it wouldn't work. Now, this query would work:

allintitle:researchbuzz news

But if you look carefully at the results, you'll see why -- Google is finding both the words researchbuzz AND news in the title of the pages returned.

Now, there IS one exception to this. You can use a NOT with this syntax. For example, if you try this query:

allintitle:researchbuzz -news

You'll only get a few results. This comes in more handy when you're restricting your research to an URL. If you want to restrict your search to an URL, you do it this way:

allinurl:

That finds your word only in the URL of a page. so you could do:

allinurl:neruda

If you wanted to restrict the kinds of sites you get, you could do this:

allinurl:neruda -com -net -org

That will give you far fewer results.

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