How to Search a Site for a Keyword
Searching within a specific website can sometimes be the most effective way to research a topic. For example, a certain music site may be a valuable source of guitar information. Rather than searching the whole Internet for "guitar," you can search that site instead. This type of Web research eliminates thousands or millions of search results you might normally have to review. Many major search engines allow you to confine your keyword searches to specific sites.
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Visit the home page of a search site such as Bing, Google or Yahoo.
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Enter the following query into the page's search box:
myQuery site:targetSite.com
Replace "myQuery" with your keyword. Replace "targetSite.com" with the site you wish to search. For instance, to search for the keyword "money" at the Whitehouse website, type the following in the search box, without the quotation marks: "money site:whitehouse.gov". Include at least one space after the keyword. You can omit the "http://www." part of the URL and simply enter the domain name portion as shown above.
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Press "Enter." The search engine will search the designated site for your keyword. Results appear in the standard search results list.
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Scan through the results and review the short descriptions for the items in the list. Your keyword appears in bold in these descriptions.
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Click one of the search results to view the Web page associated with those results.
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Tips & Warnings
If you use Google, you can often discover additional useful results pages by adding the tilde symbol in front of your keyword. This tells Google to include more synonyms of your keyword in the search results. Adding the tilde symbol to the sample query results in the following search query: "~money site:whitehouse.gov." Google will return results that may contain such synonyms as finances, cash and revenue.
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