URL Search Engine

.. to find "official Websites" first on results listings

[send2paul]

Good Evening :)

I was having dinner with a colleague the other night - discussing websites and search engines. He was saying how frustrating it was that when he wanted to find the official website of some place - even if he typed the name of the place into Google, (on the assumption that the name would be in the URL), that the official website would never be the first site that came up.

So, the question to the panel is- is there a search engine that just searches websites URLs - so that the official site for somewhere would appear first in the listings?

[Lord Majestic]

Yes there is ... use domain WHOIS lookup :)

[send2paul]

I don't understand.

[Dijkgraaf]

Well in Google you could try the following
Go to advanced search and
from "Occurences Return results where my terms occur" select "in the URL of the page".
This is the same as doing allinurl: keyword

[send2paul]

Cheers - I'll try that.

[larryhatch]

I'm confused. What do you mean by "the official website of some place"?

Are you looking for a site for City Hall? for the Chamber of Commerce? the convenience store?

The very word 'official' bothers me. Who makes this or that 'official' in the first place?
What's to keep me from saying my site is the official site for (you name it)? - Larry

[send2paul]

The company owned website who would hopefully have their name in the title e.g. www.cocacola.com