Rev up the search engine like a pro.

The asterisk one is pretty cool

I don't know what I would do without Google

is that a legit thing, the whole 'google power user' business?

This is why google is better than bing.

for the record, these are called "Google Dorks".
They're also often used by hackers to find things like vulnerable sites and such.
for example inurl:php?page= filetype:php
this is a great way to find sites vulnerable to a form of website hacking called "RFI" (Remote file inclusion) or "LFI" (Local file inclusion)