How To Use the Google Search Engine To Search a Specific Web Site

Introduction

The Google search engine gives users around the world access to literally billions of web pages and that number is growing on a daily basis. This abundance of digital information is great for first time Internet users because it lets people know that they should think outside the box about the topics and terms that they are searching for on the Internet, as there are literally billions of possibilities. For example, if a student is searching for a "laptop for school", he or she might happen upon links and advertisements that concern taking classes online instead of visiting a local campus. This is the natural intuitiveness of the Google search engine that benefits all users. On the other hand, some people just want to go directly to one, single website to find information, but the website is comprehensive and full of data, rendering it is almost unusable. Compare this to going to a local public library where a librarian with a master's degree in library science knows exactly where everything is located in these vast and colossal facilities. When you visit a website, even an "online library", you are overwhelmed and on your own in finding what you need. Luckily Google programmed search operators and functions into its search engine that allows users to search a particular site. It's a process you might refer to as "domaining", because when you visit a site like Google.com, Yahoo.com or Microsoft.com, these are the domains for these corporations.

Step 1

Open that Internet browser that is installed on your PC to begin the process of using the Google search engine to search a specific site. Although Google develops and maintains the Chrome browser, you can use Firefox, Internet Explorer, Safari or any other brand of browser to search specific sites.

Step 2

Navigate to the Google search engine home page. The web address is www.google.com.

Step 3

Type the following search operator in the blank text field in the center of the Google search engine web page: "site:".

Step 4

Add the domain of the specific website that you want to search using the Google engine. For example, the Microsoft Corporation's domain is "microsoft.com". Input in the domain in the following fashion:

"site:microsoft.com"

Press the Enter key and this puts the search engine in a sort of site-specific mode.

Step 5

Enter any search term that you want to find on that specific website like so: "site:microsoft.com Windows 7 installation". This is basically telling the Google search engine that you want to see web pages only on written and published by Microsoft, about installing Windows 7 on your PC.

Tips

Many websites feature the Google Search engine directly on the web page, referred to as "Power By Google".

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