LKBEN11075: Howto search for a "searchterm" on a website via a search engine

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Author: Wim Peeters - Keskon GmbH & Co. KG

Symptom

You would like to search via a search engine (e.g. google) but the results should come from a defined website

Cause

none

Solution

You can go to your favorite search engine. (e.g. google) and type in your search term followed by site:www.site-to-look-in.com.

We can give the following examples:

debian site:www.lubby.org

This will search for all indexes of http://www.lubby.org which contain the searchterm debian.

The following will search for debian and installation in the indexes.

debian installation site:www.lubby.org

About the Author

Wim Peeters is electronics engineer with an additional master in IT and over 30 years of experience, including time spent in support, development, consulting, training and database administration. Wim has worked with SQL Server since version 6.5. He has developed in C/C++, Java and C# on Windows and Linux. He writes knowledge base articles to solve IT problems and publishes them on the Lubby Knowledge Platform.

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