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.
Instructions
- 1
Visit the home page of a search site such as Bing, Google or Yahoo.
2Enter 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.
3Press "Enter." The search engine will search the designated site for your keyword. Results appear in the standard search results list.
4Scan through the results and review the short descriptions for the items in the list. Your keyword appears in bold in these descriptions.
5Click one of the search results to view the Web page associated with those results.
