Bloggers are always interested in discovering new sites that are quoting them. While Technorati Cosmos or Blog Search Engines like Ask or Google are great for finding sites linking to you, they have certain limitations like they only index sites that provide feeds and they do not index user comments.
So which Google search operators hit your mind ? site: Or link: Or inurl: ? While these Google operators are useful, the only issue with them is they cannot be used as a combination. Ands that’s one big area where Yahoo search excels Google – you can use two search operators together in a Yahoo query. Equivalent of Google link: operator is known as linkdomain: in Yahoo.
Q1: How may stories on Digg.com link to Google.com ?
A1: linkdomain:google.com site:digg.comQ2: Which stories on your blog cite lifehacker.com as the source ?
A2: linkdomain:lifehacker.com site:labnol.blogspot.comQ3: Which stories on lifehacker.com link to your website ?
A3: linkdomain:labnol.blogspot.com site:lifehacker.comQ4: What pages on Wikipedia mention cnn.com as References ?
A4: linkdomain:cnn.com site:wikipedia.orgQ5: How many pages on Techcrunch.com are linking to Digg.com ?
A4: linkdomain:digg.com site:techcrunch.comAnother Tip: Use the Yahoo Advanced search page to further refine your search to languages or geographic region
