[WEB4LIB] RE: Finding links to specific pages

[gary price]

Michael:
A couple of points in response to your e-mail.

1) Bernie is looking for pages that link to his page so the url: will not
prove of value in this particular situation.
The url search is useful when looking for specific words/phrases that may be
used in a url. Often, a good way to limit.

2) On the subject of url: search, Northern Light and Yahoo DO offer this
limiting device.

Specifically,
Northern Light
URL:  does work <see:
http://www.northernlight.com/docs/gif/img_quickref_01.gif >
or use the advanced search page and fill in the box
http://www.northernlight.com/power.html

Yahoo:
Use a U: <terms> in the search box
See http://search.yahoo.com/search/syntax?p=


cheers,
gary
Gary D. Price, MLIS
Librarian
Gary Price Research and Internet Consulting
Information Consultant, George Washington University
gprice at gwu.edu
----- Original Message -----
From: "P. Michael McCulley" <mcculley at best.com>
To: "Multiple recipients of list" <web4lib at webjunction.org>
Sent: Wednesday, June 20, 2001 2:49 PM
Subject: [WEB4LIB] RE: Finding links to specific pages


>
> Many search engines offer the link: or url: search option, Bernie, as
noted here for Google and Altavista so far. You might link to see the chart
from InfoPeople, which lists many of these, at
> http://www.infopeople.org/search/chart.html
>
> HotBot, Northern Light, and Yahoo! are among those majors not noted so far
that offer this field for searching.
>
> Best regards,
> Michael
>
> P. Michael McCulley
>  aka DrWeb
> Email: mcculley at best.com
>
> Quote of the Moment:
> Work is the curse of the drinking classes.
> --Oscar Wilde
>
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: web4lib at webjunction.org
> >[mailto:web4lib at webjunction.org]On Behalf Of Sloan, Bernie
> >Sent: Wednesday, June 20, 2001 10:57 AM
> >To: Multiple recipients of list
> >Subject: [WEB4LIB] Finding links to specific pages
> >
> >
> >
> >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
> >Senior Library Information Systems Consultant
> >University of Illinois Office for Planning and Budgeting
> >338 Henry Administration Building
> >506 S. Wright Street
> >Urbana, IL  61801
> >Phone: (217) 333-4895
> >Fax:     (217) 265-0454
> >E-mail: bernies at uillinois.edu
> >
> >
>
>