May not be teaching old dogs new tricks, but here is a quick post about utilising the querystring parameters in Google search. The Google search url is made up of a number of parameters, the & symbol is used to add parameters as shown in the following example: http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=football+world+cup&btnG=Search

• hl=en – this defines the language. en is for English.
• q=football+world+cup – this is the search query, the + is to replace spaces
• btnG=Search - the ‘Google Search’ button was clicked to start the search

These are very basic parameter strings, now let’s take a look at how we can manipulate the result set coming back:

• &num=100 – this will show the top 100 results instead of the default 10
• &start=100 – this will allow the results to start from a particular position in the SERP’s

Now for a few advanced querystrings: as_qdr=x - Replace the x to one of the following to show when files had been first indexed:

• d – last 24 hours
• w – last 7 days
• m – last month
• y -  last year
• m2 – last number of months. m2 wlast 2 months m3, m4 etc etc

So just a few ways to manipulate the results in the Google, for a full list visit the SEOmoz ultimate guide.