gHacks Technology News | Latest Tech News, Software And Tutorials » search commands http://www.ghacks.net A technology news blog covering software, mobile phones, gadgets, security, the Internet and other relevant areas. Sat, 11 Feb 2012 08:24:54 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Yahoo vs. Google vs. Msn, Search commands comparedhttp://www.ghacks.net/2005/10/14/yahoo-vs-google-vs-msn-search-commands-compared/ http://www.ghacks.net/2005/10/14/yahoo-vs-google-vs-msn-search-commands-compared/#comments Fri, 14 Oct 2005 08:58:49 +0000 Martin Brinkmann http://www.deny.de/ghacks/?p=26 I was checking out various search engines to find a comparision table on how their searches differ from one another. I came up with no link but with lots of articles on their different engines.

Therefor i decided to compile a chart with the most important search strings for Google, Msn and Yahoo. As you can see in the chart the most common search strings are all the same. (that are the boolean ones, AND, OR, NOT as well as the Exact Term Search “”).

Google and Msn each have some special strings that seems to be unique for their engine, those are:

Msn: contains, emphasise, ip, linkdomain and location
Google: related and daterange

The conclusion is the following:

Yahoo lacks a lot of the advanced search features that Msn and / or Google offers. Msn and Google have each some searches that are unique to their Search engine but are supposedly not used that often by its users.

StringGoogleMsnYahoo
All terms(AND)term1 term2 term3term1 term2 term3term1 term2 term3
Any term (OR)term1 OR term2 OR term3term1 OR term2 OR term3term1 OR term2 OR term3
Exact term (“”)“term1 term2 term3″“term1 term2 term3″“term1 term2 term3″
Exclude term (NOT)-term1-term1-term1
Include term (+)+term1+term1+term1
Search domainsite:urlsite:urlsite:url
Exclude domain-site:url-site:url-site:url
Titlesintitle:term1intitle:term1intitle:term1
Urlinurl:term1inurl:term1inurl:term1
Anchorinanchor:term1inanchor:term1-
Textintext:term1inbody:term1-
Contains-contains:filetype-
Daterangedaterange:2452389-2452389--
Emphasise-prefer:term1-
Filetypefiletyp:term1filetyp:term1only in advanced search
IP-ip:111.111.111.111-
Languageonly in advanced searchlanguage:enonly in advanced search
Linklink:urllink:urllink:url
Links to domain-linkdomain:url-
Location-loc:USonly in advanced search
Relatedrelated:url--

reference:

http://googlemyway.com
http://search.msn.com
http://search.yahoo.com/

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