Building Queries - Information Trapping: Real-Time Research on the Web - page 81

Be sure to try to get as speciic as possible even when you're searching
titles—a page that has your very speciic query word in the title will prob-
ably get you a jackpot of information. On the other hand, you may ind you
need to get more general before you start getting many results. Don't use
too many query words with this syntax.
the UrL syntax
To conduct a special URL syntax search on Yahoo and Google, you must
enter inurl:keyword . his syntax searches only the URLs of pages for the
keyword you specify.
But be careful. We are deinitely in quadruple-axel territory here. Since
there's no guarantee that people will use a full word in a Web page name,
it's tough to use this syntax. I tend to use it mostly when I'm searching blog
entries because many blogs put the full title of their entry in their URL.
the site syntax
To conduct a site syntax search on Yahoo and Google, you must enter site:
in the query box. his syntax restricts your search to either a top-level-
domain (.org, .edu, .com, .uk, etc.) or to a single domain (like CNN.com).
Why would you want to do this? Many domains tend to have their own
“lavor” of information (with the exception of the .com domain).
For example, material on .edu domains, especially if you're searching for
scientiic/professional information, tends to be more academic (though
occasionally student pages can also be found there). Information on .org
domains can slant toward the nonproit (though this is less true than it used
to be). If you need to search within a single domain, check and see if that
domain ofers its own search or alert service before you go to the services
ofered by a search engine. Remember, there's no guarantee that a search
engine will index every single page on a site.
WarnInG
Be aware that any time you exclude the .com domain from a
search, you're excluding a lot of pages. try your search without
using site syntax and then try it again using site syntax to see what
information you'd be missing.