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.com

Q2: Which stories on your blog cite lifehacker.com as the source ?
A2: linkdomain:lifehacker.com site:labnol.blogspot.com

Q3: Which stories on lifehacker.com link to your website ?
A3: linkdomain:labnol.blogspot.com site:lifehacker.com

Q4: What pages on Wikipedia mention cnn.com as References ?
A4: linkdomain:cnn.com site:wikipedia.org

Q5: How many pages on Techcrunch.com are linking to Digg.com ?
A4: linkdomain:digg.com site:techcrunch.com

Another Tip: Use the Yahoo Advanced search page to further refine your search to languages or geographic region

Via Yahoo Search Operator Hack for Finding URL Citations in Websites at Digital Inspiration – Software Reviews, Internet and Technology Guide