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about, an, and, are, as, at, be,
by, from, how, i, in, is, it, of, on, or,
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"similar" to a specified web page
 related:www.starfalls.com
Wildcards
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amendment" filetype:ppt
Adobe Portable Document Format (pdf)
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results to documents containing
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results to those with all of the
query words in the title.
Domain=Site
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textbook site:www.csulb.edu
inurl:
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documents containing that word in
the url
Calculator
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 3^20
 sqrt(16)
Unit conversion
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 160 pounds * 4000 feet in Calories
Currency Conversion
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British pounds
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Spell Check
 camputer
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Order of Your Keywords
 california
movie
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stocks
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Package tracking
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Movie showtimes
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Airline Travel Info
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Patent number
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Book Search (limited)
 enter
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book title into the search box
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player $50..$100
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within the cached document
 cache:www.csulb.edu
library
link
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query [link:] will list webpages
that have links to the specified
webpage.
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