gHacks technology news » search commands http://www.ghacks.net A technology blog covering software, mobile phones, gadgets, security, the Internet and other relevant areas. Mon, 23 Nov 2009 22:22:46 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 Yahoo vs. Google vs. Msn, Search commands compared http://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 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.

String Google Msn Yahoo
All terms(AND) term1 term2 term3 term1 term2 term3 term1 term2 term3
Any term (OR) term1 OR term2 OR term3 term1 OR term2 OR term3 term1 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 domain site:url site:url site:url
Exclude domain -site:url -site:url -site:url
Titles intitle:term1 intitle:term1 intitle:term1
Url inurl:term1 inurl:term1 inurl:term1
Anchor inanchor:term1 inanchor:term1 -
Text intext:term1 inbody:term1 -
Contains - contains:filetype -
Daterange daterange:2452389-2452389 - -
Emphasise - prefer:term1 -
Filetype filetyp:term1 filetyp:term1 only in advanced search
IP - ip:111.111.111.111 -
Language only in advanced search language:en only in advanced search
Link link:url link:url link:url
Links to domain - linkdomain:url -
Location - loc:US only in advanced search
Related related:url - -

reference:

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

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