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I was doing a Google search for Urban Dictionary and noticed that the result had a search box. This appears to be a new feature.

I had assumed that Google would send the query to Urban Dictionary’s servers but it instead did another Google search, only specific to Urban Dictionary.

I’ve known how to use Google to search a particular site by using the “site:” flag. This is a very useful feature. I use it a lot when I want to do a search across all craigslist locations, something craigslist doesn’t offer. To see what the site specific search results look like, check out this site specific search on Urban Dictionary for “Rickroll”.

I doubt publishers will like this feature. While it may be helping the user it’s also robbing the publisher of a pageview and freedom to weigh their own search results.