How to Exclude Specific Domains in Google Search Results
Exclude Specific Domains
There is no room for doubt regarding the power of Google’s search operators. You can ensure that you are discovering the exact content you are looking for by putting in a little bit more effort.
One method to accomplish this is to filter results from websites you are not interested in visiting.
How to Exclude Keywords in Google Search Results
To exclude particular terms or objects from your search results, just insert a hyphen in front of the word without including a space.
Therefore, if you wanted to see articles about macro lenses for photography but not about Nikon, you would use the following search query:
“macro lenses -nikon”
How to Exclude Domains in Google Search Results
If you’re more concerned about barring certain sources, you have two options.
The first way is equivalent to keyword exclusion. If you’re looking for links to articles on Raspberry Pi but don’t want any from Wikipedia, you can simply type
“raspberry pi -wikipedia”
Rather than that, the second way is to employ a search operator that eliminates URLs explicitly. The query would then be as follows:
“raspberry pi -site:wikipedia.org”
Additionally, you may use this strategy to exclude subdomains or particular websites while still receiving results from other subdomains and web pages on the same domain.
These Also Work on Other Search Engines
If you’d rather not use Google, these search operators are also compatible with other popular search engines, like Bing and DuckDuckGo.
While Google Search Operators are very useful when doing online searches, don’t forget that you may also use them while interacting with other Google applications, such as Gmail and Google Drive.
How to Include search results in Google
The process of adding and rejecting pages or websites from your search engine is the same. In both circumstances, you are presented with three distinct alternatives, each with its own distinct behaviour.
- Select the search engine you want to update from the control panel.
- From the left-hand menu, choose Setup.
- Click Add under the Basics tab, under Sites to search.
- Enter the URL you want to include and choose whether to include all pages that match or just that page. If you’re unsure which one to choose, see the table below.
- Click the Save button.
Any page containing the URL is either included or excluded. Entering www.mysite.com, for example, will match www.mysite.com/about.html but not blog.mysite.com.
If you input a particular page address, for example, www.mysite.com/about.html, it will return just that page. Additionally, you may use URL patterns such as www.mysite.com/*about.
How to Exclude sites from your search engine
Select the search engine you want to update from the control panel.
From the left-hand menu, choose Setup.
Click Advanced under Sites to Search on the Basics tab to broaden the Sites to exclude section.
Under Sites to exclude, click Add.
Enter the URL to exclude and choose whether to include all pages that match or just that page. If you’re unsure which one to choose, see the table below.
Click the Save button.
Exclude any sites whose URL is included in their address
Select the search engine you want to update from the control panel.
From the left-hand menu, choose Setup.
Click Advanced under Sites to Search on the Basics tab to broaden the Sites to exclude section.
Under Sites to exclude, click Add.
Enter the URL to exclude and choose whether to include all pages that match or just that page. If you’re unsure which one to choose, see the table below.
Click the Save button.
Exclude any sites whose URL is included in their address
Any page containing the URL is either included or excluded. Entering www.mysite.com, for example, will match www.mysite.com/about.html but not blog.mysite.com.
If you input a particular page address, for example, www.mysite.com/about.html, it will return just that page. Additionally, you may use URL patterns such as www.mysite.com/*about.
