[WEB4LIB] RE: Finding links to specific pages

[gary price]

Bernie:

Hello from D.C.
*As Dan points out with AltaVista, the same is true for Google.

In the search box type, link:<url>


*Most of the Inktomi fed databases also provide this service. 
For example MSN Search

http://search.msn.com/advanced.asp
In the find pull-down box select: links to this url


*Alltheweb.Com via
the Advanced Interface:
http://www.alltheweb.com/cgi-bin/advsearch
In the "word filters" box use pull-down <third box> and select link to URL

Btw, Lycos uses the same database. So, this interface will also work.
http://lycospro.lycos.com/?tab=mylink&aloc=sb_tab_mylink&lpv=1



Btw, Greg Notess's wonderful search engine chart is a great tool to answer
these types of questions. 
http://www.searchengineshowdown.com/features/


cheers,
gary




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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dan Robinson" <drobinson at hwwexch.hwwilson.com>
To: "Multiple recipients of list" <web4lib at webjunction.org>
Sent: Wednesday, June 20, 2001 2:14 PM
Subject: [WEB4LIB] RE: Finding links to specific pages


> Bernie, Altavista still has 'link:" in its basic search. Enter link:url
> (without the http://). I just did it and got no hits for the full page.
> However I did get 166 hits for your directory. And using one of those
> hits, added /digiref.html to the link search and came up with 24 linked
> pages for that specific page. 
> 
> Dan Robinson
> drobinson at hwwilson.com
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Sloan, Bernie [mailto:bernies at uillinois.edu]
> > Sent: Wednesday, June 20, 2001 1:57 PM
> > 
> > 
> > What are the best sites to use for finding Web pages that 
> > link to a specific
> > URL?
> > 
> > I am not sure I'm asking the question correctly, so let me 
> > give an example:
> > 
> > I want to enter a specific URL, e.g.:
> > http://www.lis.uiuc.edu/~b-sloan/ready4ref.htm
> > 
> > And then I want to retrieve a list of Web pages that have 
> > links to the above
> > URL.
> > 
> > Thanks!
> > 
> > Bernie Sloan
> > 
>