| Exact term(s) | Explanation |
| google: | This specifies that the search engine is google.com . If you see yahoo: then the search engine is yahoo.com |
| term | term can be any word in simple text (no bold, no quotes, no nothing). This means that that term must appear in that exact way as a keyword |
| [term] | the term is an optional keyword |
| <terms> | the terms must be substituted with correct keywords |
| "terms" | the keywords must appear between quotes |
| search query | Explanation |
| google:<your name> | search for your name (eg: John Doe) on google |
| yahoo:"favorite song" beatles | search for "favorite song" related to beatles |
| google:"<game name>" | search on google for a game using it's name as a whole (eg: "unreal tournament 2004") |
| google:playing [games] | search on google for: playing or playing games. these are 2 separate searches. |