Searching for pages that contain a particular URL

[Cockerill, Alan]

Thanks Polly - I had already tried Google but it was giving me a result I didn't believe.

Basically a student has reported a broken link, but not said what page the link was contained in the link: search in google and got no hits so had (wrongly) assumed that search didn't work.  The tried it with a link I knew existed and only got the page at the link I was testing (which seemed particularly odd as that page definitely doesn't link to itself).  Clearly I lost faith too soon.

User probably found the link in own bookmarks or print material (or something google can't crawl)

Thanks for tracking the doco down.

Cheers, Alan.

<heads off for nap>

Alan Cockerill
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From: Web technologies in libraries [mailto:WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Polly-Alida Farrington
Sent: Thursday, 29 August 2013 12:32 PM
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Subject: Re: [WEB4LIB] Searching for pages that contain a particular URL

Hi Alan,

Seems to still work in Google too - from their advanced search tips page:

>Using the link: operator, you can find pages that link to a certain 
>page. For example, you can find all the pages that link to google.com.
>link:google.com
>Tip: You can also search for links to specific pages, like google.com/images.
>link:google.com/images
>
>source: 
>https://support.google.com/websearch/answer/136861?p=adv_sitespecific

Hope that's what you were looking for?

Polly

p.s. I remember the coal-fired ENIAC days! :)

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Polly-Alida Farrington
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At 10:20 PM 8/28/2013, you wrote:
>Back in the day if I was considering moving or deleting a page I would 
>use Alta Vista (on my coal-fired ENIAC) to see if other sites were 
>linking to it and inform the webmaster (in those days, kids, there were 
>only 3 of us).
>
>The search syntax was:
>
>Link:http://www.thatdomain.com/directory/pagename.html
>
>And A-V would list all the pages/sites that contained an a href to that link.
>
>I may be having a seniors moment but I can't find anything that does 
>that now.  And A-V passed just last month (I'm sorry for your loss).
>
>Is there an alternative way of doing this?
>
>Cheers, Alan.
>
>Alan Cockerill
>Library Technologies Coordinator
>James Cook University
>
>PO Box 6811
>CAIRNS QLD 4870
>Phone:+61 7 4042 1737
>Fax: +61 7 4042 1516
>Email: Alan.Cockerill at jcu.edu.au
>Skype: alan.cockerill.jcu
>Web: 
>http://www-public.jcu.edu.au/libcomp/library/contacts/staff/JCUPRD_0174
>01
>Blog: http://jculibrarytechnology.blogspot.com/
>Tweet: http://twitter.com/cockerilla
>
>CRICOS Provider Code: 00117J (QLD)
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