TIP: Searching TFL using Google

I find Google's index of The Fresh Loaf to surface more relevant articles than the built-in site search and much faster.

Consider a search for yeast water. Using the built-in search returns 10 results and 6 of them are irrelevant. 

The Google query:

site:thefreshloaf.com yeast water

instantly returns 10 relevant results. 

But typing that site:thefreshloaf.com part of the query is a pain. 

A little known feature of many browsers is the ability to define your own search keywords to use in the URL bar. 

This works in Chrome, Brave and Edge.

Go to Settings and search for "site search", then click "Manage search engines and site search". Scroll down a bit to "Site Search" and click the Add button.

In the "Search Engine" field type The Fresh Loaf. In the "Shortcut" field type tfl. In the URL field copy and paste the following line:

https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Athefreshloaf.com+%s

Then click "Save".

Now when you want to search for site content simply type into the URL bar tfl followed by your query.

tfl community bake

tfl "yeast water"

This hack will work with any search engine that allows limiting the query to a single site. If you're worried about Google tracking your baking interests you could use Duck Duck Go by replacing that last line with something like

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=site%3Athefreshloaf.com+%s