Getting Google to search specific sites only
Is there any way of Getting Google to search specific sites only?
Like if you wanted to start up an education site, and you wanted to put on a google search box that people could search for ' reactivity series ' and it would search Wikipedia, BBC bitesize, Google scholar, Doc browns science etc...
CptAwesome posted this at 22:47 — 4th January 2005.
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the searches would be like this:
site:wikipedia.org query
if I am not mistaken, you could do something with javascript to input that before the query string as it was sent to google.
heebiejeebieclu posted this at 12:48 — 5th January 2005.
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and it could do multiple sites?
CptAwesome posted this at 15:02 — 5th January 2005.
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Do you mean at once, or switchable between different ones?
because "site:anything.com query" works.... but if you mean something like Dogpile thats a different can of worms.
heebiejeebieclu posted this at 13:17 — 6th January 2005.
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no, not search engines, just sites. Say, you searched templates, and i want the results from specific sites only, say webmaster forums, webmasterforums101, freetemplates.com
and it would display googles results from those sites
CptAwesome posted this at 19:50 — 6th January 2005.
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yeah, you'd send google "site:webmaster-forums.net templates" it would give you the results for webmaster-forums.net about templates
example
http://www.google.com/search?q=site:www.webmaster-forums.net%20templates
You can get a little more advanced I suppose, and send multiple queries and harvest the results, if you wanted results from multiple specified sites.
In terms of just sending the queries, you could do it with some simple javascript.
<script language="javascript">
function searchsite()
{
go = "http://www.google.com/search?q=site:"+theform.sitename.value+" "+theform.query.value;
window.location = go;
}
</script>
<form name="theform">
<select name="sitename">
<option value="www.webmaster-forums.net">Webmaster Forums</option>
<option value="www.devshed.com">Devshed</option>
</select>
<input type="text" size="30" name="query">
</form>
<a href="javascript:searchsite();">Go</a>
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