Restricting web searches to specific sites?
October 8, 2005 12:50 PM Subscribe
Is there a way to utilize a whitelist of specific sites in either Google or another search engine? The "site:" operator seems either too restrictive (one website) or too expansive (e.g., edu, gov).
A non-working solution to what I want to do would be "query site:website1 site:website2 site:website3". Afterward, I could make a keyword in firefox so that I could avoid having to add in the list of sites every time.
A non-working solution to what I want to do would be "query site:website1 site:website2 site:website3". Afterward, I could make a keyword in firefox so that I could avoid having to add in the list of sites every time.
Best answer: Rollyo lets you search up to 30 specific sites at once and everyone's personal site search roll thing is available to everyone else, so you might just find someone covered a subject you're interested in already.
posted by mathowie at 1:09 PM on October 8, 2005
posted by mathowie at 1:09 PM on October 8, 2005
Response by poster: skyboy: Rollyo is nearly an ideal solution. The ability to break up results by site is nice, and I was able to create a firefox bookmark so I can type "r query" in the location bar and utilize the whitelist. The limitation to 25 sites may be a future problem, but not yet. Thank you!
posted by aiko at 1:15 PM on October 8, 2005
posted by aiko at 1:15 PM on October 8, 2005
You might be able to do something with the google API. I don't know if it exposes more options or not, but you might be able to merge results from multiple queries.
posted by devilsbrigade at 2:08 PM on October 8, 2005
posted by devilsbrigade at 2:08 PM on October 8, 2005
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posted by skyboy at 12:54 PM on October 8, 2005