<story><title>Google Search Operators: A Complete List (2018)</title><url>https://ahrefs.com/blog/google-advanced-search-operators/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>TeMPOraL</author><text>Some are out of date, I think. I used the &amp;quot;define:&amp;quot; one so often that it became muscle memory for me. I was saddened when it stopped working a couple months ago. It&amp;#x27;ll still sometimes give you the word definition card, but I think only when just typing the word would give you the same card. I switched to typing &amp;quot;$word dictionary&amp;quot; instead, as I found it to trigger the definition card in almost every case where &amp;quot;define:$word&amp;quot; no longer would.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>black-tea</author><text>I replaced that with a Firefox quick shortcut to Wiktionary a while ago. Much better results than Google had.</text></comment>
<story><title>Google Search Operators: A Complete List (2018)</title><url>https://ahrefs.com/blog/google-advanced-search-operators/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>TeMPOraL</author><text>Some are out of date, I think. I used the &amp;quot;define:&amp;quot; one so often that it became muscle memory for me. I was saddened when it stopped working a couple months ago. It&amp;#x27;ll still sometimes give you the word definition card, but I think only when just typing the word would give you the same card. I switched to typing &amp;quot;$word dictionary&amp;quot; instead, as I found it to trigger the definition card in almost every case where &amp;quot;define:$word&amp;quot; no longer would.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>RyanOD</author><text>Of course, this relies on what data Google has on hand. Many of the examples provided in the article work because Google has so much data about &amp;quot;Apple&amp;quot; searches. The more niche the search operator, the more likely no results will surface. That being said, I&amp;#x27;ve always found the &amp;quot;site:&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;inurl:&amp;quot;, and &amp;quot;+&amp;quot; or &amp;quot;-&amp;quot; operators to be incredibly useful for research reasons.</text></comment>