Advanced Search page: Type your search term into one of the Find Results
boxes. Ensure that Only is selected in the Domain drop-down list box and
then type the domain you want to search in the text box on that same line.
Toolbar/home page: Precede the URL with site: (with no space between
site: and the site name) and include search terms. Or type a search term
into the toolbar’s search box, and click the Search Site button. (This button
may not be visible; click the Options button and select Search Site on the
More tab of the Options dialog box.)
Syntax example: site:cnn.com iraq war (searches just on cnn.com) or
site:org global warming (searches all .org sites)
To view all the pages on a site, do this: site:cnn.com -iunbiiurheh. By
adding - followed by garbage text, you’re asking Google to show you all the
pages that don’t contain the garbage text. Assuming no pages have this text,
Google should return all pages. (On very large sites, Google gets a little con-
fused and may show different numbers in the blue bar depending on what
garbage text you provide. Try experimenting with different strings of text,
such as a long string of the same character and a short string with mixed
characters.)
Ignore a Web site
You can tell Google to omit a Web site from a search. If a particular site is
returning a lot of results and you know what you want is not there, you can
run your search again and remove these spurious results. Unlike the preced-
ing command, you can ignore multiple sites or top-level domains at the same
time.
Advanced Search page: Type your search term into one of the Find Results
boxes. Ensure that Don’t is selected in the Domain drop-down list box and
then type the domain you want to ignore in the text box on that same line.
Toolbar/home page: Precede the URL with -site: (don’t add a space
between site: and the URL) and include search terms.
Syntax example: -site:cnn.com iraq war (searches everywhere but
cnn.com) or -site:org -site:gov global warming (ignores all .org
and .gov sites)
Find a page in the index
Google provides a way to search for a particular page to see if it’s in the
Google index. However, Google is a little inconsistent in its results; sometimes
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