30 in 30: Day 4 - Searching a Site

Day 4 in the 30 in 30 series is going to share a trick that I learned a few years ago while teaching a Digital Citizenship unit to seventh graders.  We were doing a scavenger hunt where students had to search a website to find key words or phrases and answer the corresponding questions.  The one site that we had to search {ThinkUKnow} had so many pages to look through it became more frustrating than productive.  Through the frustration came the discovery of the "site:" search tool.  Using the power of Google, you can search for any term or string of words from a particular site.  Rather than just searching Google's millions of indexed webpages, if I know what I am looking for and the website that I want to find it on, I can use the "site:" in the Google search box before what I am trying to search for.  Was super useful for us in class as we knew what site we were trying to search and the terms that we were looking for, just didn't know where to go.  We let Google bring us back just the results from the site that we were looking for.  Pretty awesome search trick.  Click Here to watch the video on how to use the "site:" search to refine your search results to a specific website.