{"id":93873,"date":"2026-07-14T07:17:31","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T06:17:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=93873"},"modified":"2026-07-14T07:17:31","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T06:17:31","slug":"how-to-properly-google-search-the-site-the-most-powerful-way-to-find-what-you-want","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2026\/07\/14\/how-to-properly-google-search-the-site-the-most-powerful-way-to-find-what-you-want\/","title":{"rendered":"How to properly Google search the site \u2014 the most powerful way to find what you want"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It seems to me that many users of this site do not know how to properly search it using Google\u2019s advanced search facility, which offers far more control than the site\u2019s own search function.<\/p>\n<p>To search only this site using Google, type the following directly into Google\u2019s search box:<\/p>\n<p><code><a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=site:taxresearch.org.uk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">site:taxresearch.org.uk<\/a> followed by [your search term]<\/code><\/p>\n<p>For example:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><code><a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=site:taxresearch.org.uk+sectoral+balances\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">site:taxresearch.org.uk sectoral balances<\/a><\/code><\/li>\n<li><code><a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=site:taxresearch.org.uk+household+budget+analogy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">site:taxresearch.org.uk household budget analogy<\/a><\/code><\/li>\n<li><code><a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=site:taxresearch.org.uk+wealth+tax\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">site:taxresearch.org.uk wealth tax<\/a><\/code><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>You can add a date range using Google\u2019s\u00a0<span style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\">filter tools: click\u00a0<strong>Tools<\/strong>\u00a0under the search bar, then\u00a0<strong>select Any time<\/strong>, and choose<\/span>\u00a0the period you want.<\/p>\n<p>To search for an exact phrase, put it in quotation marks. For example:<\/p>\n<p><code><a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=site:taxresearch.org.uk+%22money+is+a+social+construct%22\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">site:taxresearch.org.uk \u201cmoney is a social construct\u201d<\/a><\/code><\/p>\n<p>This is the fastest way to find a specific post or all posts on a particular topic.<\/p>\n<p>Does this help?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It seems to me that many users of this site do not know how to properly search it using Google\u2019s advanced search facility, which offers<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2026\/07\/14\/how-to-properly-google-search-the-site-the-most-powerful-way-to-find-what-you-want\/\"><em> Read the full article&#8230;<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-93873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93873","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93873"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93873\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":93874,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93873\/revisions\/93874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}