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Search Engine Tips
he search engines have provided a number of tools that can be used to retrieve
information about their database. Not all search engines provide the same
features; others may have a different way to access the same feature. The chart
below lists the features provided by the search engine.
Note that different results are normally produced for "www.topwebsitetips.com"
and "topwebsitetips.com". To view the results type the tool word i.e. "site:"
followed by the URL that you wish to check into the search box of the search
engine.
| Tool |
Result |
Google |
MSN |
Yahoo |
| info: |
One stop place to use all of Googles webpage
tools. |
x |
- |
- |
| site: |
Webpages that are indexed for this
site. |
x |
x |
- |
| link: |
Pages that link to this page, this is often
not a complete list. |
x |
x |
- |
| cache: |
Shows the the search engines cache of the
this URL |
x |
- |
- |
| related: |
Find web pages that are similar
to the this URL |
x |
- |
- |
| "URL" |
Find sites that contain the website url. |
x |
x |
x |
| domain: |
Webpages that are indexed for this site. |
- |
- |
x |
| linkdomain: |
Pages that link to this page, this is often
not a complete list. |
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- |
x |
linkfromdomain:
NEW
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Pages that this site links to. This will not
work if you put "http://www" in front of the domain you wish to check. |
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x |
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| inurl: |
Useful in Google to find out which pages are
in the main index. All pages listed are in the main index, if a page shows up
in site: but not here it is in the
supplemental index |
Most Useful |
x |
x |
Link:
In some cases tools can be combined to "fine tune" your results. As an example
"site:http://www.siteone.com link:http://www.sitetwo.com"
will show all of the pages in "siteone" that have a link to "sitetwo". This is
useful when you are checking to see if one of your link partners is still
linking to you.
Another way to accomplish finding if your link partners are still linking to you
is with "linkdomain:http://www.sitetwo.com
site:http://www.siteone.com" Once again this shows all
pages on "siteone" that link to "sitetwo".
When ever using the "link:" tool it is good to remember that
Google does not display all of the links it knows about. It is often better to
use this tool on MSN when you are wanting to know how many people link to your
site.
Allinurl:
Another useful combination uses the "allinurl:" tool. By
putting this in the search bar you will get all of the articles in my
article folder (as well as any other url that contains the word article).
But only on topwebsitetips.com.
"allinurl:Articles site:http://www.topwebsitetips.com"
This is most useful on very large sites that you want to look at the information
on only a portion of the pages. One use to is to use this to tell if a
certain section of a site is in the supplimental index of Google. You can
scroll through hundreds of pages searching for the one web page you want, OR
use the "allinurl" to find only the web pages with particular words in the URL.
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