Find Region Specific Information (Part 2 of 4)

Last week, we covered how to use the advanced search page to limit your results to a specific region country.  This week we will discuss how to find results from multiple countries.

Each country has its own domain extension.  For example, in the United States the domain extension is .com, in the United Kingdom it is .uk.  A directory of domain extension can be found at the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority, http://www.iana.org/domains/root/db/.

To find limit your results to website’s with a specific countries web extension, use Site Search.

Site Search
1. Type in your keywords, followed by site: and the country code representing the country you want to limit your results to.
2. For example, “green technologies” site:.uk, click here to see results of this search

To search within websites from multiple countries, use OR Search.  This will allow you to conduct multiple site searches simultaneously.  

OR Search
1. Enter your keywords, place an OR in between each site:.
2.For example, “green technologies” site:.uk OR site:.fr.  Click here to see results for this search.



Next time, we will cover how to search within specific zip codes.