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Bookmark or shortcut for a specific google search

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helene75
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Hi, I would like to create a bookmark for a specific Google search, namely for searching within a specific branch of a specific site. The idea is to NOT add "site:insertyourworksitehere.org/docs/office" each and every time I want to look for something in that particular place (always the same part of the same website).

I found this article that addresses a close, but not the exact same, topic: 1° https://www.itworld.com/article/2756332/networking-hardware/a-shortcut-for-site-specific-searching-in-google.html. But this is designed to look for something in the current website.

I have to add, to further overcomplexify the problem, that there is no "search" feature on the website itself. (Yes. I know.)

Any help appreciated!

Hi, I would like to create a bookmark for a specific Google search, namely for searching within a specific branch of a specific site. The idea is to NOT add "site:insertyourworksitehere.org/docs/office" each and every time I want to look for something in that particular place (always the same part of the same website). I found this article that addresses a close, but not the exact same, topic: 1° https://www.itworld.com/article/2756332/networking-hardware/a-shortcut-for-site-specific-searching-in-google.html. But this is designed to look for something in the current website. I have to add, to further overcomplexify the problem, that there is no "search" feature on the website itself. (Yes. I know.) Any help appreciated!

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jscher2000 - Support Volunteer
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A normal keyword bookmark for Google search might look like this:

Name: Google Search Location: https://www.google.com/search?q=%s Keyword: g

When you enter g Firefox in the address bar and submit that, the %s is replaced with Firefox in the URL.

A site-targeted variation, for example, for this site, would require this edit:

Name: Google Search Mozilla Support Location: https://www.google.com/search?q=site:support.mozilla.org+%s Keyword: gm

To set that up, you could right-click a spot on the Bookmarks Toolbar or Bookmarks Menu, then click New Bookmark. Or if you already created a bookmark to Google (this captures the icon, so that might be nice) you could edit that bookmark using right-click > Properties.

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helene75
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Wonders! Thank you SO MUCH!