Searching Google for Somersoft Threads??

Surely more effective to use the eBay search function, but...

site:ebay.com.au widgets book

Putting "site:sitename.com" before (or apparently after as pointed out above) will search that site for the other terms in your string.
 
Surely more effective to use the eBay search function, but...

site:ebay.com.au widgets book

Putting "site:sitename.com" before (or apparently after as pointed out above) will search that site for the other terms in your string.

Nope some things don't show up on ebay search - same with Gumtree

Thanks everyone.
 
Am I missing something... why dont you just search directly on Somersoft?

There are some limitations with the built-in search, so it can be useful to also search the site using Google if you can't find what you are looking for with the built-in search.
 
the other good search to do is

<search term> site:au

to only return sites hosted in australia

Actually no, this will only return sites with an Australian TLD (top level domain), as such, it will return results for somersoft.com.au, but not results for somersoft.com

Google does have an option to target results to a specific geography - if using google.com.au, look for the option on the left "Pages from Australia".

This includes results for websites that are hosted in Australia (not necessarily Australian sites!), but also sites hosted elsewhere which are configured to be Australian-focussed. There is an option in Google Webmaster Tools which allows you to assign the geographic targeting for a site (if any).

For example, we used to host somersoft.com on a US server, so to most people, it would not seem to be an Australian site ... however, by telling Google that it was actually focussed on Australia, we were able to have the results appear in "Pages from Australia" searches, despite not being a .au, nor being hosted in Australia.

Hope this clears things up a little.
 
Is it best to search multiple words in google as above as such "widgets rule" or widgets rule ?

If you are sure that the words will appear on the page exactly as you type them, it can help narrow down the search by including double quotes around them.

But remember that Google will take your search terms literally then and might ignore any variations that it would otherwise consider.

It can also be useful to exclude words by adding a minus sign to a search term.

Example: land banking -scam (hides all results which include the significant word "scam").
 
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