You can use the site: parameter in search engines like Google or Yahoo to do so. The site:ghacks.net firefox command would for example display all Ghacks pages that refer to the Firefox web browser. The Firefox add-on Search Site makes these parameter more accessible by providing direct access to it. A user on Ghacks could therefor launch a site search right from that page without having to load a search engine first or accessing the search engine in the toolbar (there are also users who have disabled that toolbar element).
The Search Site extension for the Firefox web browser provides two options to access the site search parameter. The first is by marking text on a website, right-clicking and selecting the “search site for selection” option in the context menu. This will open a new tab in Firefox that displays the results of a site: parameter search in the default search engine. Changing the default search engine has a direct effect on this function. The extension is therefor not limited to Google (the default search engine) but can be used in conjunction with any other search engine supporting the site parameter.
The second option is to click on the site search button that has been added to the search toolbar. Entering a search term into the search toolbar and clicking on the site search icon will perform the site: search instead of a normal web search for the term.
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Seriously lame … anyone can provide a right-click Accelerator to IE8. You mean you have to install ANOTHER FF extension just to add site search?
► A few search tips. Don’t worry these are a breeze to learn. If I can anyone can.
► When using site search don’t enter it the following way unless all you want are search results for subdirectories of the domain name.
site:www.google.com
► To get more than that like the subdomains and the subdirectories enter it this way.
site:google.com
► Google has many Advanced Search Operators to help you filter your searches to give you more relevant results with less effort and less time doing it.
► To see how some of these work Visit a great site called Soople http://www.soople.com/ They have hard coded some of the operators into Google’s Web Search form so you won’t have to type them in. They only used just a few here as examples. You’ll need to visit the other sites to see how all of them function.
► To get the most comprehensive list with explanations of these search operators go to Googleguide http://www.googleguide.com/advanced_operators.html Checkout the other wonderful pages while you are there.
► Here is a site that has tested all of the search operators in many different situations Google Hacking Database http://johnny.ihackstuff.com/ghdb/ You can find passwords using these operators.
► A really great book for this is called Google Hacks http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596004477/ There is also a second edition and a third edition
► I read these books absolutely free. I asked at my local library if they had them. They said no but found them in a library in a bigger city in our state. If they hadn’t had it the librarian told me she could have searched FirstSearch.org’s Worldcat where she could borrow them from libraries in another state or even all over the world. In most cases this costs nothing, But occsionally if a fee is charged it is less than the price of the book. I have never had to pay any fees. Only libraries can get an account at FirstSearch but my library gave me their username and password to use at home. I order the books at home and pick them up at the library and return after I have read them. If I wanted I could get a book about poetry from a Russian Library here in the United States. Not all libraries worldwide use FirstSearch but most do.
► The above method is good if you want to learn to hand code HTML pages in HTML. XHTML, and CSS. There are thousands of these books but only a few are worth your time. You could go broke trying to find a good one. ♥♥♥