• Inquisitr, Wednesday, August 13, 2008 2:15 PM

Duncan Reilly serves up a list of nearly two dozen search parameters to refine your queries on Google. Of course, there are well-known tricks like adding quotes to a phrase to garner an exact match, as well as entering a stock symbol (like YHOO or GOOG) to get the most recent share price info. But Reilly also includes lesser-known query refiners like the location finder. "Use inurl:, intitle:, intext:, or inanchor: to tell Google where it should look for the term you['re] looking for," he says.

He also suggests using the modifier "filetype:" to find pictures or particular kinds of documents. "For example, 'blogging filetype:pdf' delivers pdf documents that include the word blogging," he says. You can search Google's cache by adding "cached:" to your query, and adding the "~" symbol before a word in your query tells the engine to find similar terms.

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