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Try Site Searching

A site search is a powerful tool for smart web searching. Put simply, this is a Google search that limits results to certain types of websites. In Google (or any other search engine), you type your search term, the search function "site:", and the domain of the website that you want to limit your results to (like .gov or .org)

 

This is what it looks like. This site search limits results to websites within the .gov domain (official U.S. Government websites)

Here is another example. This site search limits results to websites within the nytimes.com website