[You.com] Web Search
| Operator | Description | Example |
About this capability
| Operator | Description | Example |
| -------- | ----------- | ------- |
| site: | Search within a domain and its subdomains | site:uscourts.gov |
| filetype: | Search for a specific file type | filetype:pdf |
| + | Require the exact term after the operator | +GAAP |
| - | Exclude the exact term after the operator | -prs |
| AND | Require both expressions | guitar AND Fender |
| OR | Match either expression | guitar OR drum |
| NOT | Negate an expression | NOT site:uscourts.gov |
- Query supports You.com search operators:
- Use livecrawl with livecrawlFormats: ['markdown'] when you need full page content instead of snippets.
- Use the Get Page Content step when you already know the URLs to fetch.
- Use freshness for recency: day, week, month, year, or YYYY-MM-DDtoYYYY-MM-DD.
- Use country (ISO 3166-1 alpha-2) and language (BCP 47) to focus results geographically or linguistically.
- includeDomains cannot be combined with excludeDomains or boostDomains.
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[You.com] Finance Research
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Search and list podcasts in the Particle catalog by keyword, topic, or language.
[Particle Podcasts] Search Dialogue
Search across podcast dialogue using semantic or keyword search. Returns matched lines grouped by episode.
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