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So, this may certainly not be the right forum. But it's the closest I could find of all available in this family of sites to ask the question. Please educate me if this isn't the right location.

Am I just a tard? I can't find out to search content on the LifeHacker site. I found out back in '06 there was a FireFox plugin that did it. But it's not out there in the add-ons area anymore.

Help?

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This is probably the worst example of a tech centric site disabling essential technology. It's almost as bad as schools being the only tech-free zone that students are supposed to be learning in. – user8840 Feb 21 '11 at 2:44

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You could always cheat with Google:

site:lifehacker.com windows

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+1 That is the best way to search any site. – Moab Dec 16 '10 at 0:53
@Moab any public site :) – Lipis Feb 20 '11 at 18:45
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Are you talking about locating the search box on their site - it's usually at the top right of the screen (sometimes gets covered). If you are asking about searching on a search engine like Google, then yes, there is a way to restrict to specific sites - look under something like Advanced search options and there should be a place to put a site to restrict searches to. For Google it would be "what_you_are_searching_for site:sitetosearch" so "Batman site:lifehacker"

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I've attempted to find a search box on the homepage in 3 different browsers and it just ain't there. There's a "Share" box. But that's for adding content, not searching. – Boydski Dec 20 '10 at 15:34
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There is a firefox add-on called search this site

I don't know if it's any good cause I never used it. I'm using a similar extension on chrome thought and it works flawlessly.

And you can always use google site feature just like John T suggested.

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They removed the search feature recently because of security issues:

Due to the recent security issues, certain features of the site have been disabled. Among them? Search. But let's be honest: search didn't really work that well anyway. Here's a better way to search for your favorite posts.

Their recommended workarounds are to either use the Google site: operator, or to add lifehacker to Chrome or Firefox.

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Wow. If that's the case, then they really need new programmers. Or they just need to educate the ones they have. Search is nearly as essential for a site like theirs as the content itself. Yeesh! – Boydski Dec 20 '10 at 15:34
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If you use Chrome or Opera, it is easy to build a custom (Lifehacker) search provider for those browsers so that you don't even have to use the site: operator every time you want to search something on Lifehacker.

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