# TIP: Search the Website

DevFeed: [TIP: Search the Website](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/tip-search-the-website-19594.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://www.codenameone.com/blog/tip-search-the-website/>)

Author: Shai Almog

Published: 2016-12-11T00:00:00Z

Content type: tutorial

Language: en

Sources: [CodeName One](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/codename-one.md>)

Topics: [Website](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/website.md>), [Google Search](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/google-search.md>), [browser](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/browser.md>), [pdf](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/pdf.md>), [Stack Overflow](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/stackoverflow.md>), [Google Groups](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/google-groups.md>), [Cloudflare](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/cloudflare.md>)

Tags: [google](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/google.md>), [google-search](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/google-search.md>), [guide](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/guide.md>), [index](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/index.md>), [js](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/js.md>), [pdf](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/pdf.md>), [search](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/search.md>), [server](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/server.md>), [tool](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/tool.md>), [tools](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/tools.md>)

## AI overview

The article explains workarounds for searching a website that lacks built-in search, including Google site search, a JavaDoc index, a searchable developer-guide PDF, Stack Overflow, and Google Groups. It also discusses challenges in implementing static-site search.

## Source excerpt

A frequent complaint we get is the lack of a search feature on the site and we get that. It's frustrating to us too. We'd like to add it but are still looking at the "right way" to do it which I'll discuss at more length below but for now I'd like to discuss a couple of relatively simple workarounds. The Current Workarounds Google Site Search We can just type site:codenameone.com followed by your query into google when searching to search within the site e.g. like this https://www.google.co.il/search?q=site%3Acodenameone.com+Button