The subject of searching multiple Domino websites came up yesterday when Martin Scott's "Super Search" was mentioned. While it's a useful resource it's very outdated (and annoying if you don't realise it's going to spawn a whole load of new windows). Times have moved on and there are more elegant ways of searching multiple (related) websites at once.

One such way is to use a service like Rollyo.com, which lets you list the domains for which you want results returned. Here's a page which lets you search a small subset of the Domino sites out there:

http://rollyo.com/jakehowl/domino_sites/

There's a link on that page that will let you add the search engine to your browser's search field, which you can also do for codestore using the instruction on the search form.

Or you can do a search from this form, which you could embed on your own site:

Select...Domino SitesSearch The Web

Rollyo uses Yahoo search (I think). Like everybody else (or so it seems) I'd rather use Google to do the searching. Unsurprisingly they offer their own way of restriciting search results to certain domains, called Google Coop.

There's already a Google custom search for Lotus Domino:

http://www.google.com/coop/cse?cx=008231444553199791783:dql4bnwwnf8

You can test it using the form below. Oddly there's no way to add it to your browser's search feature. It could be hacked but I'll only do that if one of you ask me to.

So, there you have it. There are at least two ways you can easily search just Domino sites. That way can do a search safe in the knowledge you won't be following dead ends to results from sites like Expert Exchange and the like.