how are people getting google results from a certain site in 2026?

You can stack it with the other operators too. Put a phrase in quotes for an exact match, and use a minus sign to exclude a word, so the site: bit, then "return policy" in quotes, then -shoes to drop anything about shoes. Just don't use site: to count how many pages are indexed. The number it gives is a rough guess. Search Console's Pages report is the real figure.

site: operator still works fine. type site:example.com followed by your search words, no space after the colon. you can narrow it to a section too, like site:example.com/blog.