If you’re a Google geek like I am, I’m sure you use all sorts of different searches. I’m talking about various prefixes that you can add in front of your search query to get such results as per your requirements. I’m talking about using google search operators.
There are various such modifications that you can use. Some that I use are:
site: <sitename.com>
e.g site: shypy.com -> this will display all the pages indexed by google for the domain shypy.com
allintitle: <keyword>
e.g allintitle: dog training -> this will display all the pages that contain all of the words in the search string, “dog training” in this example, in the <title> tag of the webpage
filetype: <.filetype> <keyword>
e.g filetype: .mp3 “Beethoven Symphony No.9″ -> this will display all the pages that contain mp3 files with the words “Beethoven Symphony No.9″ in the file name.
allinanchor: <keyword>
e.g allinanchor: best laptop 2010 -> this will display only pages in which the anchor text on links to the pages contain the words “best,” “laptop,” and “2010”.
But for me, someone who uses these kinds of searches extensively, it is very inefficient to to type out all the text every time I want to use them.
So if you’re lazy person like me, what you can do is at these searches as bookmarks in Firefox and assign a keyword to them. This will allow you to use these searches by just typing in the keyword in the address bar.
Here’s how you do it in Firefox.
1. Open “Organize Bookmarks” from the bookmarks menu OR press ctrl+shift+B
2. Right-Click in the bookmarks window and select “New Bookmark”
3. Type in any name you want (doesnt matter)
4. Type in the following string in the Location textbox:
http://www.google.com/search?q=link:%s

You can replace link: with allintitle: allinanchor: cache: site: filetype: or a dozen other google operators.
5. Type in your keyword. This is very important because you will be using this keyword to perform searches straight from the address bar.
6. Click on and you’re done.
Now go to the address bar (Ctrl + L) and type in “all: amazon kindle” and you will be shown all pages with the words amazon and kindle in the page title.
This can be used in a variety of ways.
Maybe you are an internet marketer like me and need to perform different types of searches to gauge competition for different keywords.
Maybe you are an avid reader and want to see if the pdf version of your favorite book is available online. Just perform a quick filetype search.
Maybe you want to see all the pages in the website.
You can now perform different types of google searches directly from the address bar using a single keyword.
Thanks to Mardeg from #firefox @irc.mozilla.org for helping with this article.