Filed under: Search, Browsers

A lot of web sites (like Download Squad, for instance) have search boxes that make it easy to find content no matter where it's hiding on the site. Some don't. Fortunately Google indexes most sites on the web, making it easy to search any web page by adding something like "site:www.example.com" into Google after your search query. Or if you're using Firefox, you can install the Search Site add-on to make things even easier.

Here's how it works. Once the extension is installed, you can highlight any text you find on any web page, right click, and select "Search Site for selection" from the context menu. The add-on will then use Google to conduct a search for that text, bringing up a list of pages that include the term you were searching for.

Search Site also adds a second search icon to the Firefox search bar. If you enter a query into the search bar and then hit the green Search Site bar instead of the default search tool, Firefox will search just the web page you're currently on, not the entire internet. You can also adjust the default search engine from the Firefox search bar to conduct your Site Searches using Google, Yahoo!, or another service.

[via gHacks]

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