This is Part 2 of the Yandex Search Commands Cheat Sheet.
| Command | Example | Explanation |
| # abstract=(<keywords>) | #abstract=(Spanish & Conversation) | This command will search the meta DESCRIPTION text of an indexed page and return links that contain the keywords in it. |
| # hint = expression | news lang = “en” #hint = Thailand | The hint command searches image captions. The example will find all English news pages with the keyword Thailand as part of the image caption. |
| # host = “URL”# rhost = “reverseURL” | keyword # host = “www.site.com”keyword # rhost = “com.site.www” | Search for the keyword(s) on the website denoted by “URL”. Note that the command does not work consistently unless you include the “www” before the domain name. The rhost command operates like the host command except that the URL is reversed. |
| # image image_name | # image image1.jpg | This command searches web pages for images by their filenames. The example searches all web pages containing an image named image1.jpg. |
| # keywords = (KW expression) | # keywords = (Spanish & Conversation) | The searcher can find only pages containing the keyword(s). By using the & operator, more than one keyword can be searched. |
| like:URL | like:www.somesite.com | Search for all pages that are like the page located at URL. |
| # link <site_url> | # link “http://anywebsite.com” | Search the Yandex index and find links to the site name following the command. Enclose the site name in quotes to ensure an exact search. Otherwise, you will get partial matches on the site name. This is a very useful command for determining which websites have backlinks for a particular URL. |
| lang = “<language>” | Teaching English lang = “en” | This is a very important command if you only want results returned in the language specified by <language>. Otherwise, results will be mixed. |
| # mime:<file extension> | spanish # mime:pdf | The mime command searches for documents of the specified file type or extension. |
| title[] | Teaching English lang = “en” title[“English Teaching Site”] | The title command is useful if you want to look for a website in Yandex with the exact title specified. |
| #url=”host” <keywords> | #url=”www.spanishsite.co” lessons | The benefit derived from the url command is that the searcher can isolate one website and find the desired keywords in only it. |
| Keyword domain=”dom” | conversacion domain = “es” | Search for the key word or phrase within the domain specified by “dom”. In the example, the search specifies to search for the keyword on all Spanish domains. This is useful if you want to limit your search for pages in the native set of a certain country. |
| date=”yyyy{*|mm{*|dd}} | Russia news date=”201001*” | Search only for pages dated with the specified date in year, month, and day format. The * denotes a wild card. For instance, the example command says to look for Russian news pages dated in the month of January, 2010. |
