Keyword Searching with a Colon

I've taught keyword searching in the past, but I never knew about using a colon to narrow down fields. When I checked my MyBlogLog stats, I saw this Google search: click here: traditional afternoon tea : : menu : : the upper crust || morris county

I did some additional Google searching for the use of colons in keyword searching and this is what I learned:

• Colons allow you to search for specific fields in a site (like doing a database query)
• You can either type the field name ("click here") or the first letter of the field ("a" for author, "t" for title)

• If you're looking for a specific URL but you don't know the full address, type URL:keyword
• If you want to see if your own blog or website has been linked from someone else, type link:yourURL

Some of the uses of the colon (:) is only effective with library catalogs and databases, but try it out the next time you need to be extremely specific and you don't feel like combing through a vast link forest.