Search Engine Tips
Author: adminNovember 9, 2008
The 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.123seotalk.com and “123seotalk.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 | 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. |
- | - | x |
| linkfromdomain:NEW | Pages that this site links to. This will not work if you put “http://www” in front of the domain you wish to check. |
- | x | - |
| 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 |
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