Google Search Operators Builder

How to use

1. 1Tap a quick preset to start from a common advanced search recipe, or skip presets and fill in the fields you need.
2. 2Type plain terms in Words anywhere, an exact quote in This exact phrase, words to exclude in Exclude these words, and alternates in Any of these words (OR).
3. 3Restrict to one or more domains with On these sites, or remove noisy domains with Exclude these sites. Use Intitle, Inurl, and Intext to pin tokens to the title, URL, or body text.
4. 4Pick a File type to find PDFs, spreadsheets, configuration files, or any other extension, and use the Published after and Published before dates to scope time.
5. 5Use Language, Region, Freshness, Results per page, and Verbatim to refine the URL-level filters. Read the Live preview and copy the query string or the full URL.
6. 6Click Search on Google to open the assembled query in a new tab, or paste the copied URL into Slack, a brief, or a research note.

About this tool

Google Search Operators Builder assembles an advanced Google search query from a structured form, so you do not have to remember exact operator syntax to find what you need. The builder covers every operator Google still respects in 2026: free text terms, exact phrase (wrapped automatically in quotes), exclude word and exclude phrase (turned into -term and -"phrase"), the OR alternates group (joined and wrapped in parentheses when there is more than one), site: for single or multiple domains (multi-domain inputs are emitted as (site:a OR site:b)), -site: for excluded domains, filetype: with a curated list of common types (PDF, DOCX, XLSX, CSV, TXT, RTF, JSON, XML, MD, LOG, SQL, ODT and more), intitle:, inurl:, and intext: with multi-word phrases automatically quoted, and the before:YYYY-MM-DD and after:YYYY-MM-DD date pinning operators with date input validation. On top of the operator string itself, the builder wires up the structured URL parameters Google honors: num for results per page (1 to 100), lr for language (English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, Chinese Simplified and Traditional, Japanese, Korean, Arabic, Turkish, Dutch, Polish, Swedish, Indonesian, Hindi), cr for region (United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, Germany, France, Spain, Italy, Netherlands, Brazil, Mexico, India, Japan, South Korea, China, Turkey, Russia), tbs=qdr for freshness (past hour, day, week, month, year), and tbs=li:1 for verbatim mode that turns off Google's auto-correction and synonym expansion. Ten quick presets seed the form with the most common advanced search recipes: PDFs on a domain, login pages on a domain, public configuration files (for asset owners auditing their own surface), open directory listings, resumes by role and skill, brand mentions outside your own site, blog articles on a domain, public discount and promo code pages, university lecture slides on a topic, and exact phrase news in the past week. The live preview switches between the bare query string and the full Google search URL so you can copy whichever one you need, and a Search on Google button opens the result in a new tab. Useful for SEO research, content audits, OSINT, journalism, competitive intelligence, recruiting, market research, security and compliance auditing of assets you own, finding case studies or whitepapers on a vendor's site, and tracking when a quote first appeared in news coverage. Everything runs locally in your browser: the form values, the query string, and the URL are built on your device, and no search request is sent until you click Search on Google.

Free to use. Works in your browser. No signup, no login.