Search Engines Advanced Web Commands and Searches

Search engines advanced web commands can make life much easier when searching, you can search more accurately rather than just performing general searches, you can also do lots of other neat stuff as below.

By typing the following from a search engine, usually Google, MSN or yahoo

best search engine you’ll see all the sites with best & search & engine listed
“best search engine” you’ll only see sites which have best search engine together
Site: domain name shows how many pages a domain name has indexed within a search engine, don’t forget to choose local country information if that’s what you’d like to see.
Link:domain.com counts the amount of links to the domain , found to be not too reliable.

domain.com -site:domain.com returns all occurrences of domain.com not in domain.com the - means not + means only.
related:domain.com returns what sites Google considers to be your subject area.

If you have a website many of the above functions are a useful guide to measuring search engine statistics at a glance, it’s always nice to have a quick look to see how many pages are indexed, and where they are indexed as well.

Many search engine listings do fluctuate a great deal, and one day you’ll find you have x amount of high ranking pages and this will change overnight, there is nothing to be alarmed about when this happens,
pages normally retain their ranking after a few days, one of the main reason for this happening is when search engines re-index or if you make changes to a page.

Many people ask what is the best search engine , this is a very hard question as each one does certain things better than the other, there really are only 4 major search engines, the most popular being Google and then yahoo, MSN and ASK

Google has the largest index of all of them and is a good choice for general searches, Yahoo is next, it is a really good image search engine and most images and video can be found here.

MSN I like as it’s one of the fastest engines to index new pages, ASK has a really friendly interface and can sometimes come up trumps when you can’t find what you are looking for on the other search engines.

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