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Oui, je crois vraiment que les gens qui liront ceci pourraient être assez tristes pour répondre "oui" à la question "Vous avez toujours
voulu savoir comment créer vos propres chaînes de recherche Google?" Donc, dans cet esprit, voici les paramètres de chaîne de
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Tous.

http://www.google.com/search?

URL de Google. Si vous ne le saviez pas, vous êtes probablement Amish.

q = requête + va + ici

La chaîne de requête. Les mots sont séparés par des signes +.

Tout à partir de maintenant est précédé d'un signe &, car il est étiqueté jusqu'à la n. Voici où (si vous n'avez pas de petite amie), les
choses deviennent intéressantes ...

as_epq = requête + va + ici

Les résultats doivent inclure la requête, dans l'ordre des mots af ché.

S'af che comme "la requête va ici"

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as_oq = "requête + chaîne" + va + ici

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Les résultats ne doivent PAS inclure de mots dans cette chaîne.

Af che -ne pas -inclure-ces -mots

num = xx

Contrôle le nombre de résultats af chés. Doit être une valeur numérique et peut aller jusqu'à 100. Ne fonctionne pas avec les
fractions. J'ai essayé.

as_ letype = extension

Renvoie uniquement les résultats qui se terminent par .extension. Prend actuellement en charge toute entrée. Essayez-le - créez un
chier avec une extension aléatoire, indexez-le et effectuez une recherche. Montre également que tant qu'il valide quelque chose,
Google peut et va l'indexer. Quelque chose à quoi penser...

S'af che comme type de chier: extension

as_sitesearch = example.com

Limite les résultats au site que vous choisissez.

Af che en tant que site: example.com

as_qdr = x

Remplacez x par les éléments suivants pour limiter la recherche aux seuls chiers initialement indexés dans:

d - les 24 dernières heures

w - les sept jours précédents

 m - le mois précédent

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modi er commercialement

Si vous voulez créer les vôtres, mettez les bits que vous voulez entre crochets, séparés par des caractères de tube (|), et excluez les
bits que vous n'avez pas en les mettant entre crochets, précédés de .- et encore séparés par des tubes.

allintitle% 3Asearch + termes

This is actually appended to the q= parameter, hence a search for shing with the allintitle term "sea bass" would require the
following query:

q= shing+allintitle%3Asea+bass

Shows as allintitle:search terms

N.B. This also works with allintext to search page body text, allinurl for searching the URL, and allinanchor for nding sites that are
linked to with certain anchor text.

nnn..yyyy

Like the allin parameters, this is actually appended to the q= parameter. What this does though is let you search for results between
numeric ranges. For example, if you wanted to nd documents with numbers between 15 and 100, you'd put in 15..100. Very useful
for nding products in a price range, when combined with the site limiter. Works with $, £, and other such things.

Shows as query 15..100

%2Bterm

Again, this is appended to the q= parameter. The %2B is actually the + sign encoded, and will return results featuring only the term
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Yet another q= parameter add-on. Returns de nitions for the word you put in.

Shows as de ne:word

term * term two

And another q= parameter add-on. Returns results with listings that contain both words, with other words between them.

n+n2, n-n2, n/n2, n*n2, n^n2 and n% of n2

Google's calculator functions. They are, in order, add, subtract, divide, multiply, raise to the power of, and return x percentage of.

safe=active

Sets safe search to on. To turn it off, change active to images.

as_rq=example.com

Finds sites Google thinks are related to the URL you put in.

Shows as query related:example.com

as_lq=example.com

Finds sites that link to the URL you put in.

Shows as query link:example.com

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Opens clicked listings in a new window. Very useful for opening lots of documents at a time, for competitor research. Set to 1 to
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btnG=Search

Simulates a click on the normal Google results buttpm. Change to btnI to get the I'm Feeling Lucky button result.

ie=

Controls the input encoding settings. This defaults to UTF-8, and is worked out server-side, hence changing it doesn't do anything.

oe=

Controls the output encoding settings. Works in the same way as ie, so you can tinker away, but it won't do anything.

&hl=value

Changes the interface language. I won't list them all here, but you can nd them all here.

lr=value

Limits the languages used to return results. Not hugely effective. That said, here's the list of all of them:

lang_ar - Arabic

lang_hy - Armenian

lang_be - Belarusian

lang_bg - Bulgarian

lang_ca - Catalan

lang_hr - Croatian
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lang_el - Greek

lang_iw - Hebrew

lang_hu - Hungarian

lang_is - Icelandic

lang_id - Indonesian

lang_it - Italian

lang_ja - Japanese

lang_ko - Korean

lang_lv - Latvian

lang_lt - Lithuanian

lang_no - Norwegian

lang_fa - Persian

lang_pl - Polish

lang_pt - Portuguese

lang_ro - Romanian

lang_ru - Russian

lang_sr - Serbian

lang_sk - Slovak

lang_sl - Slovenian
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AF - Afghanistan

AL - Albania

DZ - Algeria

AS - American Samoa

AD - Andorra

AO - Angola

AI - Anguilla

AQ - Antarctica

AG - Antigua and Barbuda

AR - Argentina

AM - Armenia

AW - Aruba

AU - Australia

AT - Austria

AZ - Azerbaijan

BS - Bahamas

BH - Bahrain

BD - Bangladesh
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BY - Belarus

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BV - Bouvet Island

BR - Brazil

IO - British Indian Ocean Territory

BN - Brunei Darussalam

BG - Bulgaria

BF - Burkina Faso

BI - Burundi

KH - Cambodia

CM - Cameroon

CA - Canada

CV - Cape Verde

KY - Cayman Islands

CF - Central African Republic

TD - Chad

CL - Chile

CN - China

CX - Christmas Island

CC - Cocos (Keeling) Islands

CO - Colombia
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DJ - Djibouti

DM - Dominica

DO - Dominican Republic

TL - East Timor

EC - Ecuador

EG - Egypt

SV - El Salvador

GQ - Equatorial Guinea

ER - Eritrea

EE - Estonia

ET - Ethiopia

FK - Falkland Islands (Malvinas)

FO - Faroe Islands

FJ - Fiji

FI - Finland

FR - France

GF - French Guiana

PF - French Polynesia

TF - French Southern Territories

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GM - Gambia

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GU - Guam

GT - Guatemala

GN - Guinea

GW - Guinea-Bissau

GY - Guyana

HT - Haiti

HM - Heard and McDonald Islands

HN - Honduras

HK - Hong Kong

HU - Hungary

IS - Iceland

IN - India

ID - Indonesia

IQ - Iraq

IE - Ireland

IL - Israel

IT - Italy

JM - Jamaica

JP - Japan
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LR - Liberia

LY - Libya

LI - Liechtenstein

LT - Lithuania

LU - Luxembourg

MO - Macau

MK - Macedonia

MG - Madagascar

MW - Malawi

MY - Malaysia

MV - Maldives

ML - Mali

MT - Malta

MH - Marshall Islands

MQ - Martinique

MR - Mauritania

MU - Mauritius

YT - Mayotte

MX - Mexico
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MD - Moldova

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NL - Netherlands

AN - Netherlands Antilles

NC - New Caledonia

NZ - New Zealand

NI - Nicaragua

NE - Niger

NG - Nigeria

NU - Niue

NF - Norfolk Island

MP - Northern Maria

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NO - Norway

OM - Oman

PK - Pakistan

PW - Palau

PS - Palestinian Territory

PA - Panama

PG - Papua New Guinea

PY - Paraguay
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PH - Philippines

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RW - Rwanda

KN - Saint Kitts and Nevis

LC - Saint Lucia

VC - Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

WS - Samoa

SM - San Marino

ST - Sao Tome and Principe

SA - Saudi Arabia

SN - Senegal

CS - Serbie et Monténégro

SC - Seychelles

SL - Sierra Leone

SG - Singapour

SK - Slovaquie

SI - Slovénie

SB - Iles Salomon

SO - Somalie

ZA - Afrique du Sud

GS - Géorgie du Sud et îles Sandwich du Sud

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ES - Espagne

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TW - Taïwan

TJ - Tadjikistan

TZ - Tanzanie

TH - Thaïlande

TG - Togo

TK - Tokelau

TO - Tonga

TT - Trinité-et-Tobago

TN - Tunisie

TR - Turquie

TM - Turkménistan

TC - Iles Turques et Caïques

TV - Tuvalu

UG - Ouganda

UA - Ukraine

AE - Emirats Arabes Unis

GB - Royaume-Uni

US - États-Unis

UM - Îles mineures éloignées des États-Unis

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UZ - Ouzbékistan

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YE - Yémen

ZM - Zambie

ZW - Zimbabwe

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Ann Smarty
12 years ago

LOL... this post was submitted to StumbleUpon... You'd never guess the category of the submission.

Ready?

It's Africa... :) any reasons I fail to see?

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Not a clue. Hands up whoever did it...

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Well, sphinn this then please: The Ultimate Guide to the Google Search Parameters ;)
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DanaLookadoo
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Oh, gosh... I feel like I'm back in Logistics & Combinatorics class! Boolean, eat your heart out!

This makes Google's Advanced Operators page elementary.

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g1smd
12 years ago

Awsome.... and some. There are several in there that I have never used.

You missed one: & lter=0

Eliminates the "omitted results" or "similar results" lter, and allows all results to show in the SERP.

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Pete Watson-Wailes
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Bugger. Good catch :)

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Dr. Peter J. Meyers
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Excellent... thanks. Some of the URL parameters are really cryptic, even for coders.

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Pete Watson-Wailes
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No shit! You wouldn't believe how many times I've sat and looked at some of them and gone "what on earth are *you* doing?"

So I sat and worked them all out.

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paisley amoeba
12 years ago

very excellent... now.. go get laid.. you deserve it.

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Pete Watson-Wailes
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lol. Thanks. I feel cool now.

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 arthurofsun
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Well, Id like to say this is "all of them," but I can't nd a refernce to the following parameters that come up in search.  These are from an article
on the search engine roundtable at http://www.seroundtable.com/
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search parameters for "charlatt NH"

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http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&pwst=1&q=%2BCharlatt+NH&ei=TyucSYPTA4K2sQPB5ailAg&sa=X&oi=stemming_tip&ct=title
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Glenn Ferrell
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"ei" is also something in which I'm interested. There is a unique "ei" associated with each of the hyperlinks to the other pages at the bottom of
the page: i.e. 1  2  3  etc. You would expect that the "Next" button would use the same "ei" as the page it is going to but, surprisingly, it doesn't
seem to !

Does anyone understand where these "ei" values come from and what Google uses them for ?

Thx, Glenn

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William Horta Ru no da Silva

9 years ago

The &num parameter doesn't seen to work anymore, without saving the preferences cookie for no google instant, does anyone has a
workaround for it?

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Jeremy Martinez
4 years ago

Any new updates to Google Search parameters since 2008? This is a great article, but I'd like to see Moz do a new one! Thanks!!

-Jeremy

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Yikes! 8 years ago! Families have been born, married off, divorced.

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Anyone tested any of these parameters recently?

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FikretC.
8 years ago

there is also a cid= url parameter

lets say you look for movie rental in LA and switch to Google Maps for this search

the business owner has a absolute url not shown by google by default

here it is

http://maps.google.de/maps/place?cid=3820973337617530484

any listed business by google maps has such a absolute url

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FikretC.
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great article, i think i discovered one more interesting point on this topic google.com url parameters, there is also a ved=x attribute, if you type
in a search query example:Hans Moleman in iexplore.exe and you right click the rst search result and copy the adress and paste it in your
notepad.exe or whatever text editor you use, you see ved=0CF4QFjAA in the url, i think this is because of iexplore.exe

different ved=0CGMQFjAA is Google Chrome

and this one ved=0CFQQFjAA is Firefox

i think this parameter measures what browser visitors use ved stays for vendor i think

can someone con rm my results,

many url parameters still to be uncovered.

thanks

keep up that good job

bye

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Hi Andreas, 

Same question here.... sorry topic is a bit old, but great if you have some insights into this one

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contenthut
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That is something very much result oriented and demands voluminous research work, hats off to the writer. Though not that much in detail, but
this blog that I came across while sur ng around the internet also throws substantial light on Google search parameters. It worked for me,
hopefully it will work for others as well. 

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Adrian D'Atri-Guiran
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Does anyone know what the query parameter is that is the equivalent of clicking on Search Tools, and specifying a speci c location?

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Dr. Peter J. Meyers

6 years ago

Unfortunately, Pigeon took away all of the old/easy ones. Read this post. Warning, it's complicated (but it's the best we've got)
- http://moz.com/ugc/geolocation-the-ultimate-tip-to-emulate-local-search

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This is great info, but so out of date and the best recent article (2012) I could nd was already of ine. Today it seems Google has started to
present search without any parameters at all, except for the search words (Nov 15, 2015), not sure how this will impact using theses.
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Tomas_A_Ferreira
5 years ago

Hello, does anyone know what this parameter mean? ?bq=

http://www.soonl.org/?bq=westpac+login+au

it seems to be a spam site targeting a legit business, but in what way?

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fabianus
5 years ago

Hello guys !

Does anybody have an idea on the following ?

I would like to have more results from a google search query.

If you look for the word "greenhorn" I get approximatly 500 results. Is there any possibility to get several thousand results ?

Best regards, Fabianus

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This is the best help I have found on learning Google searching, and I like your writing style; thanks ! And yes, I think there is one parameter
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Hi, I have a question about the parameter URL in the google url.Like so:http://www.google.com/url?
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Rob Marsden
10 years ago

I would like to know the answer to this aswell if anyone has any ideas..

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Katherine Romero
9 years ago

I would too - did anyone ever gure out what the url= parameter means?  I'm thinking it's the URL the user clicked on in the SERPS, but not
necessarily the one they ended up on (b/c IP redirection or whatnot).

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SimonWaters
9 years ago

Not an answer but a clue perhaps

http://analytics.blogspot.com/2009/04/upcoming-change-to-googlecom-search.htmlFirst log I checked had "url=" on google.com/url?... but not

on other searches, haven't checked if this is universal or just that site. I was looking as some of ours have a blank "q=" section.

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Ade Vitan
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I know this is pretty much an old thread, but perhaps someone is still around to answer me this:
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Scotie
12 years ago

Great post by the way, thumbs up from me.

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I think you forgot one. No. Wait. It's ok.

BTW - there is a duplication of adtest - don't know if you can edit or if that needs Rebecca...?

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Pete Watson-Wailes
12 years ago

Ah pants. Nice catch. *goes to edit*

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Nopes, I can't. Please nice Ms Rebecca, could you x this? *bats eyelashes*

Cheers.

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Huh. Turns out I can edit it (it's that shiny grey badge thing). I have just xed it. No need to worry boowrecka.

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12 years ago

YOU. HAVE. NO. IDEA.

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Pete Watson-Wailes
12 years ago

:) I love you guys. You make me feel cool.

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Will Critchlow
12 years ago

Yeah - you might want to go proof-read again, Pete.

j/k

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Rebecca Kelley
12 years ago

Oh, good.

*waddles back to couch* 

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12 years ago

Damn.. Cool... I dugg this...

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There's also gl=countryXX, which (more-or-less) displays the results you would nd in a search conducted from that geographic location. So,
let's say I'm in the UK and I want to see what the search results would look like were I in the US. I'd just need to add gl=US to the search ⌃
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parameters. Incredibly useful!
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Scotie
12 years ago

That doesn’t really work as you suggest because you are still viewing results served by UK based data centre i.e. what you are seeing is a
ltered set of UK results. If you want to see accurate US results in the UK us a proxy service.

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shedside
12 years ago

Egad! No sooner do I learn something so spectacularly useful, than I learn it's just plain wrong.

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Pete Watson-Wailes
12 years ago

I didn't include this for Scotie's reason. However, if you go through proxies, or have people in other countries on speeddial, it's not too bad :)

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Helene Hall
12 years ago

Just excellent!

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Holy crap this is a good post. I NEVER bookmark things but this is bookmarked.

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DITTO!!!!  n1 and txu Peter

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Ann Smarty
12 years ago

wow! just wow! great job! I do vote for it to be promoted to the main blog...

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DrWatson
12 years ago

Really good !!

does anybody knows some thing about as_drrb parameter (used in google blog search) ?

Thx

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seomoz2
12 years ago

Hm, what about this one:

gfns=1

This is a parameter taken from the keyword.url link that is set as default in Firefox 3

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10 years ago

And one more, please:

usg=

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LogicSpot
10 years ago

Damn, as of yesterday (10 May 2010) the ie parameter is NO LONGER WORKING.

If I try http://www.google.com/ie?q=monkey I get a very simple page telling me to upgrade my browser to IE8.

Does anyone know how to get clean search results?

Thanks in advance :)

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@markhaller

That search can now be done as follows:

  http://www.google.com/search?output=ie&q=monkey

I ran into the same issue as you :)

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Few more unknown parameters hs =  ei =  oi =  ct =  ved =

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starts, the query strings is being built like this: http://www.google.com/#hl=en... notice the /# seems to have replaced the /search?

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fp=9b1c6ebfff7f9103 (some kind of tracking?)

sa=N (shows next results page)

and my favorite:

http://www.google.com/ie?q=monkeywill return a very pure, clean list of SERP.

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bonnierSEO
11 years ago

Yes, it would be great if someone could tell us what the aqi=g10 indicates, we have been seeing quite a few referring string with this paramater,
but we don't know what it indicates.

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what are these parameters

aq=

aqi=

oq=

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From what I can see,the aq and oq parameters mean the following:

Search...aq=f  The user did not choose the query from the Google Suggest box, but the user has Google Suggest box enabled.

aq=n (where n = number from 0 up) - the query string came from Google Suggest box with n saying which position was selected. For the rst
entry in Google Suggest drop down box the n would be 0, for the second entry the n is 1, etc.
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I would like more clari cation about Google's as_qdr=x parameter. When I do a search of pages on my website (site:eventful.com) with this
parameter, I occasionally nd a URL that I KNOW was already indexed. I even double checked in Google Analytics, and sure enough Google was
sending us traf c to the exact URL weeks BEFORE the time they show in the 'previous 24 hours' advanced search.

What does this mean? Does this mean that this search returns pages Googlebot visited in the last 24 hours? Rather than pages they indexed for
the 1st time?

COLE

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Web-Design-Adelaide
11 years ago

I just came across this guide and I must say its fantastic, especially the date ltering. Incredible.

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lessy
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Hi there.

I have 4 other ones that didn't come up in this list:

cd=4

sqi=2

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Any ideas/experiences/guesses?

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Some info about ved parameter can be found in http://www.seomanontroppo.com/google-news-analytics-stuff/

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