I want to limit my Google search query to a set of websites. I am using the Opera Mini browser on my tablet for searching.
4 Answers
You're already likely familiar with using site:superuser.com
to limit your query to a single website. For example, typing this into the Google search box limits your search to superuser.com:
reboot site:superuser.com
Now, you can use the OR
operator to add another site to your query:
reboot site:superuser.com OR site:android.stackexchange.com
You can try the above searches with these links:
- https://www.google.com/search?q=reboot%20site:superuser.com
- https://www.google.com/search?q=reboot%20site:superuser.com%20OR%20site:android.stackexchange.com
Bookmark the resulting link after changing them to your websites of choice, so you can run other searches later without having to type everything again on your tablet.
You can use existing search engines. Most provide a keyword limiting search results to one/more sites. For example, on google, you can use the site:
keyword, along with OR
or AND
:
Android AND site:engadget.com OR site:gizmodo.com OR site:betanews.com
etc.
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1epic. just epic.– user315839Apr 15, 2014 at 17:08
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So like using google?– EBGreenApr 15, 2014 at 17:17
You can make a Google Custom Search Engine, if this is a collection of sites that you want to run a restricted search on - and is worth doing if you want to search the same site-collection more than once.
Google's instructions on how to do this are here: https://support.google.com/customsearch/?hl=en#topic=4513742
To actually use the engine yourself, you need to put it into a website somewhere. I've put one into Blogger a number of times - either as an HTML/Javascript gadget, or even in a post (by switching into HTML mode, and pasting in the code).
It's been a while since I did this, but last time I wrote up the process here - I don't think that the process has changed much since then.
If you include site:
in your query, Google will restrict your search results to the site or domain you specify. For example, [ admissions site:www.lse.ac.uk
] will show admissions information from London School of Economics’ site and [ peace site:gov
] will find pages about peace within the .gov
domain. You can specify a domain with or without a period, e.g., either as .gov
or gov
.
Note: Do not include a space between the “site:
” and the domain.
You can use many of the search operators in conjunction with the basic search operators +
, –
, OR
, and " "
. For example, to find information on Windows security from all sites except microsoft.com
, enter: [windows security –site:microsoft.com
]
You can also restrict your results to a site or domain through the domains selector on the Advanced Search page.
Source: Google Search Operators