Search pages and sites

You can specify your search query using document operators, such as the host where the site pages are located.

  1. Search pages located at a specified address (URL)
  2. Search all subdomains and pages of the specified site
  3. Search pages located on this host
  4. Search pages located on the specified domain

Typically, the operator is specified after the text of the search query and is separated from it by a space. You can use multiple operators in the same query by also separating them with a space

Search pages located at a specified address (URL)

Operator Syntax Query example
url: 
url:full URL
url: host name/category/*

[Alice url:en.wikiquote.org/wiki/*]

You'll find documents that contain the name “Alice” and have addresses starting with en.wikiquote.org/wiki.
Operator Syntax Query example
url: 
url:full URL
url: host name/category/*

[Alice url:en.wikiquote.org/wiki/*]

You'll find documents that contain the name “Alice” and have addresses starting with en.wikiquote.org/wiki.

To find all documents with addresses that start with the specified value, put the * character at the end of the URL. Put the URL in the query in quotation marks if it contains one of these characters: ' " ( ) _.

Note. The address isn't case sensitive.

Search all subdomains and pages of the specified site

Operator Syntax Query example
site: 
site:website URL

[site:https://en.wikiquote.org]

You'll find all documents posted on the subdomains and pages of the website https://en.wikiquote.org.
Operator Syntax Query example
site: 
site:website URL

[site:https://en.wikiquote.org]

You'll find all documents posted on the subdomains and pages of the website https://en.wikiquote.org.

Search pages located on this host

Operator Syntax Query example
host: 
host:host name in the format www.second-level domain.top-level domain

[search host:www.yandex.com]

You'll find documents containing the word “search” and hosted on the www.yandex.com host.
Operator Syntax Query example
host: 
host:host name in the format www.second-level domain.top-level domain

[search host:www.yandex.com]

You'll find documents containing the word “search” and hosted on the www.yandex.com host.

Identical to the url: operator with the specified host name.

Operator Syntax Query example
rhost: 
rhost:host name in the format top-level domain.second-level domain.www
rhost:host name in the format top-level domain.second-level domain.*

[news rhost:com.livejournal.www]

You'll find documents containing the word “news” and hosted on the livejournal.com domain.

[news rhost:com.livejournal.*]

You'll find documents containing the word “news” that are hosted on all subdomains of the livejournal.com domain.
Operator Syntax Query example
rhost: 
rhost:host name in the format top-level domain.second-level domain.www
rhost:host name in the format top-level domain.second-level domain.*

[news rhost:com.livejournal.www]

You'll find documents containing the word “news” and hosted on the livejournal.com domain.

[news rhost:com.livejournal.*]

You'll find documents containing the word “news” that are hosted on all subdomains of the livejournal.com domain.

Identical to the host: operator, but the host name is written in reverse order: the top-level domain first, then the second-level domain, and so on.

To search by all subdomains of the specified domain, put the * character at the end of the URL.

Search pages located on the specified domain

Operator Syntax Query example
domain: 
domain:domain

[yandex domain:com]

You'll find documents containing the word “yandex” and located on the com domain.
Operator Syntax Query example
domain: 
domain:domain

[yandex domain:com]

You'll find documents containing the word “yandex” and located on the com domain.