Indicate a phrase with “”
“climate change”
Will find the phrase climate change
Exclude with -
“Henry IV” -Shakespeare
Will find mentions of Henry IV that aren't about the Shakespearean play
Wildcard *, when you’re not sure of a word or want to search multiple endings of a word
Zora * Hurston (would find Zora Neale Hurston)
histor* (searches history, historian, historical, historiography, etc)
Find synonyms with ~
~asylum
Will also search synonyms of asylum
Find words in proximity to each other with AROUND(n)
asylum AROUND(5) haunted
Will find pages with the word asylum within 5 words of the word haunted
Search page titles for keywords with intitle:
intitle:hurricane
Will search only page titles for the word hurricane
Search page titles for phrases with allintitle:
allintitle:Louisiana hurricane
Will search only page titles for both Louisiana and hurricane
Search pages within a URL with inurl:
inurl:SMUMN history
Will find all pages mentioning the word history whose URL contains SMUMN
Search just one domain with site:
site:gov
Will find only websites whose URLs end in .gov
Search for pages that link to a site with link:
link:smumn.edu
Will find pages that link to smumn.edu
Search for related websites with related:
related:hathitrust.org
Will find similar websites to hathitrust.org
Search older versions of a site with cache:
cache:www.whitehouse.gov
Will search historical, cached versions of whitehouse.gov