It’s easy to use these secret Google search operators with your regular search terms. You’ll see in the examples below that there are really just minor adjustments you need to make to dig deeper and find the stuff you’re really after. You can combine multiple Google Search operators to make use of more than one at once. Here’s an example where we’re requesting a definition, but we want the results to not only be restricted to just websites with the ORG top-level domain, but also to explicitly exclude any results from these two domains and URLs with a certain word: Below is another, where we’re looking for a PDF manual for a specific kind of router on Linksys’ website. Just the domain search provides several tens of thousands of results, but it eventually dropped to fewer than 50 with the other commands added, Be careful how many of these commands you use in one query. If you stuff the search box full of several, you’re bound to end up with fewer results. This can be good to a certain point (that’s the idea behind them, after all), but eventually, you’ll run out of results and have to step a few of them back. Instead, it’s better to start with fewer, and slowly build up more as you realize which kind of results you’re not interested in seeing. Google Advanced Search is a visual way to run some of these search commands, and others. Just enter what you’re after in the appropriate boxes, and pick things like the language, file type, or last update date from the menus provided on that page.