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Limiting search results by site

Experts Exchange has the irritating marketing tactic of posting a discussion article that often seems to match exactly what I'm looking for, but the response to the question requires registration.  Since the answer to most any question is likely somewhere else on the Internet as well it's possible to restrict search results from even showing anything from this site.

Here's how to do it.  At least Bing, Duck Duck Go, Google, and Yahoo have the ability to specify a "sites" argument in a search.  It can be used to either force results from a specific site to be included or excluded.  The real nice part is that the syntax is the same for all of them, so including the following snippet into a search string can eliminate search results from Experts Exchange:

-site:experts-exchange.com

NOTE:  Whether pages are included or excluded depends on the (-) operator preceding the limiter.

The following example could be used to search for how to use the SQL TOP command with SQL Server.


-site:experts-exchange.com +"sql server" +"top"


This ensures that only non-Experts Exchange results are returned.  Conversely, if the excellent Stack Overflow should be only place to get results from, the search query could have been as follows (notice there is no minus operator in front of the sites limiter).

site:stackoverflow.com +"sql server" +"top"

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