Search pages and sites
You can specify your search query using document operators, such as the host where the site pages are located.
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: | | [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: | | [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: '
"
(
)
_
.
Search all subdomains and pages of the specified site
Operator | Syntax | Query example |
site: |
| [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: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: |
| You'll find documents containing the word “search” and hosted on the www.yandex.com host. |
Operator | Syntax | Query example |
host: |
| 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: |
| [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: |
| [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: |
| You'll find documents containing the word “yandex” and located on the com domain. |
Operator | Syntax | Query example |
domain: |
| You'll find documents containing the word “yandex” and located on the com domain. |