This search tool uses the Google index of local government websites in New Zealand, including Council sites, Council Controlled Organisations and venue specific sites.
If you think your local body site is not included, please contact web@localgovt.co.nz to advise.
You can check this by using the query modifier "site:[your_site].govt.nz on the search and it will only show results from the site you are looking for. More detail on query modifiers is listed on Google's website and a summary appears below.
To search central Government websites, please visit
site:
restrict the results to those websites in the given domain. There can be no space between the "site:" and the domain.
allintitle:
restrict the results to those with all of the query words in the title.
intitle:
restrict the results to documents containing that word in the title.
allinurl:
restrict the results to those with all of the query words in the url. [allinurl:] works on words, not url components. It ignores punctuation.
inurl:
restrict the results to documents containing that word in the url.
The query [cache:] will show the version of the web page that Google has in its cache. If you include other words in the query, Google will highlight those words within the cached document.
link:
The query [link:] will list webpages that have links to the specified webpage.
related:
The query [related:] will list web pages that are "similar" to a specified web page.
info:
The query [info:] will present some information that Google has about that web page.
Query modifiers
site:
restrict the results to those websites in the given domain. There can be no space between the "site:" and the domain.
allintitle:
restrict the results to those with all of the query words in the title.
intitle:
restrict the results to documents containing that word in the title.
allinurl:
restrict the results to those with all of the query words in the url. [allinurl:] works on words, not url components. It ignores punctuation.
inurl:
restrict the results to documents containing that word in the url.
Alternate query types
cache:The query [cache:] will show the version of the web page that Google has in its cache. If you include other words in the query, Google will highlight those words within the cached document.
link:
The query [link:] will list webpages that have links to the specified webpage.
related:
The query [related:] will list web pages that are "similar" to a specified web page.
info:
The query [info:] will present some information that Google has about that web page.
