Do More Web & Search How to Search a Specific Domain in Google Search within only one website with this tip Share Pin Email Print Web & Search Search Engines Best of the Web Safety & Privacy Running a Website by Tim Fisher Tim Fisher has 30+ years' professional technology support experience. He writes troubleshooting content and is the General Manager of Lifewire. Updated November 18, 2019 27 27 people found this article helpful You can use Google to search within a specific domain using the site: syntax. What it does is limits all search results to that specific website only, which can drastically narrow down your search efforts. For example, maybe you're researching a paper on the Jurassic period and you only want to see results from .edu sites or some other top-level domain (TLD), or maybe even from one specific website. Filtering the Google results by the URL isn't the same as filtering URLs by certain words. The former is what we talk about here on this page, but if you want to do the latter and find URLs that match your searches, use the inurl command. How to Search a Single Domain Here's how to limit your searches to one website or TLD: Type site: in the search field, without adding a space after it. Type the TLD or website URL that you want to confine the results to, add a space, and then enter a regular search term. Here are some examples: site:gov "George Washington" site:lifewire.com OLED site:co.uk tech site:amazon.com "prime day" site:nasa.gov filetype:pdf mars site:media.defense.gov inurl:2017 report Press Enter to begin the search. More Google Search Tips Using the site: command in a Google search is one way to really narrow down the results to help you find what you're looking for, but there are plenty of other search commands, too. For example, the filetype command example above is for searching Google for files that have a specific file extension, the inurl option shows only results with that term in the URL, and the quotes used around phrases group the terms together. How to Use Advanced Google Search Commands Continue Reading