Sometimes the web is too big and you'll want to narrow down your search to a specific site or subset of sites. For example, if you wanted to search zdnet.com for everything to do with the iPad, you'd use ipad site:zdnet.com. Don't forget the .com or you won't get any results. This is extremely helpful for searching your own site.
Another way to use this is as a way to narrow down searches to a certain top-level domain (such as .com, .org, .edu). For example astronomy site:edu would limit astronomy searches to .edu websites.
This way is more complicated but easier in the long run and it helps you avoid using extensions. We'll use ZDNet as an example:
Click Settings. Under Search, click Manage Search Engines.
In the “other search engines” list at bottom fill in the three empty boxes as follows:
ZDNet
Zdnet.com
http://www.zdnet.com/search?q=%s
Click Done.
You can now search ZDNet directly by typing ZDNet followed by a space and your search terms.
PS, if you want to make it even easier, use the single character Z as the name in the first box. Then you can just press Z, space, search term, go.
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