Pretty much everyone has a search bar built in to their browser. One really nice feature about these is you can easily take full advantage of your default search engine’s syntax.

The one I find most useful is the site specific search. The syntax to do this is:

site:domaintosearch.com your search terms

Basically, you just put ’site:domaintosearch.com’ in front of your keywords and your search results will be limited to the specified site. I have confirmed this syntax works in Google, Yahoo and MSN, but I am sure it works in many others as well.

Of course, different search engines offer different functions so familiarize yourself with the features of your default search engine and take advantage of the power they offer.

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Quite a few times, I’ve run searches (from here forward, assume all searches I refer to are run in Google) for some pretty random stuff only to find the page I want cannot be displayed. This is quite a bummer when there are only a few results for what you search. If this is the case, instead of starting over, try opening the cached page. A lot of search engines have this capability and it is a great way to view either expired or ‘dead’ content.

In Google, if a cached page is available, there will be a link below the search result titled ‘Cached’. If you click this link, you will see the content of the page from the last time Google archived it. Granted the content may not be the most current, but for the most part since the result matched your search query, it should be along the lines of what you are looking for.