railandsail

This was recently posted on one of the forum discussions, but I'm not sure I understand it.??

Quote:

If you did not know, google search supports specifying the site name (in RR's case, "railroad-line.com") along with keywords and the search will only look at that site.  Using this approach on any of our favorite sites, like this one, MRR, etc. can help get you right to the relevant photos, tips, and techniques you are looking for.

Quick Tech Trick: How to Search a Specific Site with Google

Simply add “site:time.com” (or “site:nbc.com” or whichever site you want to search) after your search term, and you'll get all the instances of that term on that particular site. Results from the rest of the web will be filtered out.

What does 'time' or 'nbc' have to do with it? And is a colon the proper punctuation? 

Brian

1) First Ideas: Help Designing Dbl-Deck Plan in Dedicated Shed
2) Next Idea: Another Interesting Trackplan to Consider
3) Final Plan: Trans-Continental Connector

Reply 0
Janet N

time and nbc are the sites being searched within

and yes, a colon is the proper separator.

 

Try the search "kadee site:model-railroad-hobbyist.com"

Janet N.

Reply 0
railandsail

so hyphens are needed?

so hyphens are needed?

Reply 0
Ken Rice

Hyphens in domain

The hyphen’s in Janet’s example are there because they’re part of the mrh domain “model-railroad-hobbyist.com”.

Google’s doc on search features: https://support.google.com/websearch/answer/2466433?hl=en

Reply 0
railandsail

Try the search "kadee

Quote:

Try the search "kadee site:model-railroad-hobbyist.com"

Janet N.

When I tried this all that came up were the first pages that mentioned Kadee (the complete subject thread).

I did NOT see other individual postings that mentioned Kadee in the search??

 

 

Reply 0
greg ciurpita gregc

hypen specifies matches to ignore

site:model-railroad-hobbyist.com kadee -EZ

ignores the link to EZ coupler? that is listed otherwise

greg - LaVale, MD     --   MRH Blogs --  Rocky Hill Website  -- Google Site

Reply 0
Chris VanderHeide cv_acr

Page/Post

Quote:

I did NOT see other individual postings that mentioned Kadee in the search??

That's not how the internet works.

Google is searching for pages that contain what you're looking for.

By adding site:model-railroad-hobbyist.com it will only return pages from MRH, and not from anywhere else.

Google search is not part of the MRH forum software, so it's not going to return a list of individual postings within threads with a link back; it's just going to return the entire page containing that post.

Reply 0
Chris VanderHeide cv_acr

.

If you search Google for "kadee" it will return pages from all over the internet that mention kadee.

If you search Google for "kadee site:model-railroad-hobbyist.com" it will return only pages from MRH that mention kadee.

 

It's no more or less complicated than that.

Reply 0
Reply