How To Restrict A Search To One Specific Site

You already know, from a previous post, that the site: function can be used to restrict a search engine to all sites ending with a particular suffix like .gov, for example. But, did you know you can also use site: to restrict a search engine to one specific website?

Say you wanted to quickly find all the pages on the website www.usa.gov that contained the word Medicare. Here's how you'd do that from one of the popular search engines like Google or Yahoo!:

Medicare site:www.usa.gov

That's all there is to it! Type the word or search phrase you want to find (in the case above it's Medicare) followed by site: and www.whatever website you want to search.com - in the case above it's usa.gov. Now you have a link to every page on the usa.gov website that references Medicare!