March 4, 2008 10:34 PM PST
Google offers search within search
Imagine searching inside Wikipedia or Amazon.com, but on the Google search site. Google's got a test going of a way to search inside different sites from within a Google Web search results page. If you type in "amazon," "wikipedia" or "new york times" on Google, it brings up the relevant result at the top and immediately underneath is a second search box. If you type a keyword in that secondary search box it will return results from within that site.
(Via Search Engine Land)
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NOT using Safari 3.0.4 (5523.15).
Note though that the only thing this "shortcut" does is allow you
to do in 2 steps, what you can already do in 1 step. Google just
uses the results of your secondary search to contruct its
standard "site-specific search string". For example, if you use
the method reported above to search Wikipedia for "uvic law", you can accomplish the same thing in 1 step by just typing in:
uvic law site:wikipedia.org
- main-search-term site:name-of-site
- by trevorbsmith March 5, 2008 6:15 AM PST
- As mentioned above, you can accomplish the same thing in only
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(4 Comments)1 step but just typing in your actual search term followed by
"search-words site:name.of.site.to.search.on".
This is standard behaviour for Google and works on any site. It
also works on all browsers. For example, try:
tim horton's site:haligonian.com
Still, the sub-search box is a neat feature for those who don't
know or don't remember Google's standard site-specific search
syntax.