You may find yourself trying to search within a website and their search returns poor results. Often times, Google has a better search index of the website anyway. Thankfully, Google has a prefix command that provides a much more effective way of doing this kind of search.
For site specific searching, it involves the use of the prefix site:
By adding just the sites name to your search, the results may return results from other sites mentioning the site you were trying to search within. Suppose, for example, you wanted to search for a Receptionist position on Monster.com by searching for receptionist monster.com
Allthough this will return a few monster.com entries, a bulk of the results are sites writing about monster.com, not the pages within monster.com However, by doing the search like site:monster.com receptionist you will return results only from the site Monster.com matching receptionist.
You can take this a step further and search only Education websites by using site:.edu or government with site:.gov You can even exclude all entries from the site with the a - (covered in Advanced Search - Manual Exclusion) by doing -site:monster.com which would return results from everything but monster.com
Please feel free to test this technique in either Google Search Box located above or below this article.
