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Overview of Google search operators
Google Search supports
several search operators
that you can use to refine or target your searches. The following search operators may also be
useful for debugging your website.
For example, the site: search operator may be useful to monitor comment spam on
your website, and the image search imagesize: operator may be helpful to find
images on your site that are small.
The following table contains the search operators that you can use to inspect different aspects of
your pages in Search:
Search operators
filetype:
Find search results in a
specific file type
as defined by the content-type HTTP header, or file extension.
For example, you can search for RTF files and URLs ending in .rtf whose
content contains the term "galway":
[[["Easy to understand","easyToUnderstand","thumb-up"],["Solved my problem","solvedMyProblem","thumb-up"],["Other","otherUp","thumb-up"]],[["Missing the information I need","missingTheInformationINeed","thumb-down"],["Too complicated / too many steps","tooComplicatedTooManySteps","thumb-down"],["Out of date","outOfDate","thumb-down"],["Samples / code issue","samplesCodeIssue","thumb-down"],["Other","otherDown","thumb-down"]],["Last updated 2025-02-04 UTC."],[[["\u003cp\u003eGoogle Search Operators are tools to refine and target searches for specific information.\u003c/p\u003e\n"],["\u003cp\u003eThese operators can be used to find specific file types, image sizes, and results within particular websites.\u003c/p\u003e\n"],["\u003cp\u003eOperators like \u003ccode\u003esite:\u003c/code\u003e and \u003ccode\u003eimagesize:\u003c/code\u003e can be useful for website debugging, such as monitoring comment spam or finding small images.\u003c/p\u003e\n"],["\u003cp\u003eGoogle's URL Inspection tool is recommended for more comprehensive debugging due to indexing limitations of Search Operators.\u003c/p\u003e\n"]]],["Google Search operators refine searches and aid website debugging. `filetype:` locates specific file types. `imagesize:` (in Google Images) finds pages with images of specified dimensions. `site:` shows results from a specific domain, URL, or prefix. `src:` (in Google Images) identifies pages referencing a particular image URL. While these are helpful, the URL Inspection tool in Search Console is more reliable due to indexing limitations.\n"],null,["# Debugging with Google Search Operators | Google Search Central\n\nOverview of Google search operators\n===================================\n\n\nGoogle Search supports\n[several search operators](https://support.google.com/websearch/answer/2466433)\nthat you can use to refine or target your searches. The following search operators may also be\nuseful for debugging your website.\n\n\nFor example, the `site:` search operator may be useful to monitor comment spam on\nyour website, and the image search `imagesize:` operator may be helpful to find\nimages on your site that are small.\n| Because search operators are bound by indexing and retrieval limits, the [URL Inspection](https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/9012289) tool in Search Console is more reliable for debugging purposes.\n\n\nThe following table contains the search operators that you can use to inspect different aspects of\nyour pages in Search:\n\n| Search operators ||\n|-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|\n| `filetype:` ----------- | Find search results in a [specific file type](/search/docs/crawling-indexing/indexable-file-types) as defined by the `content-type` HTTP header, or file extension. For example, you can search for RTF files and URLs ending in `.rtf` whose content contains the term \"galway\": ``` filetype:rtf galway ``` |\n| [`imagesize:`](/search/docs/monitor-debug/search-operators/image-search#imagesize) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | Find pages that contain images of a specific dimension. This search operator only works on Google Images. For example: ``` imagesize:1200x800 ``` |\n| [`site:`](/search/docs/monitor-debug/search-operators/all-search-site) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- | Find search results from a particular domain, URL, or URL prefix. For example: ``` site:https://www.google.com/ ``` |\n| [`src:`](/search/docs/monitor-debug/search-operators/image-search#src) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- | Find pages that reference a particular image URL in the `src` attribute. This search operator only works on Google Images. For example: ``` src:https://www.example.com/images/peanut-butter.png ``` |"]]
