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how to combine query modifiers

Syed ather zaidi [PersonRank 0]

Thursday, October 9, 2008
15 years ago3,550 views

hi i want to combine the two modifers [link:] and [inurl:]
Actually i want all those pages that have links to a site,say accenture.com,
I can do by [link:accenture.com]
second i want to filter the above result to include only those urls that have .gov . the query for that will be [inurl:.gov]
   now the problem is that both the above queries need to be combined so that i can get all those .gov sites that have links to accenture.com.
does anyone of you have an idea how to combine the above two queries.

thanks

foxpro [PersonRank 0]

15 years ago #

No idea

Tony Ruscoe [PersonRank 10]

15 years ago #

It's not possible to combine these two AFAIK. (You'd probably want to use the [site:] operator rather than the [inurl:] operator too.)

As an alternative, you could try this query though:

[site:.gov "accenture.com"]
http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3A.gov+"accenture.com"

Ionut Alex. Chitu [PersonRank 10]

15 years ago #

Try Live Search:
http://search.live.com/results.aspx?q=link%3Awww.accenture.com+site%3Azdnet.com
(but use site: instead of inurl:)

Tony Ruscoe [PersonRank 10]

15 years ago #

Ionut, that still doesn't work for me. It just returns searches for the phrase "link:www.accenture.com" on all sites on the zdnet.com domain rather than actual links.

Ionut Alex. Chitu [PersonRank 10]

15 years ago #

Sorry about that, they disabled the link: operator. The recommended option is to use Live Search Webmaster Central, which offers options to refine the backlinks. Unfortunately, the data is only available for site owners.

http://webmaster.live.com/
http://blogs.msdn.com/webmaster/archive/2008/08/13/making-backlinks-actionable-again.aspx

Also check Yahoo:
http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=link%3Ahttp%3A%2F%2Fyahoo.com+inurl%3A.gov

mrbene [PersonRank 10]

15 years ago #

More info on the supported parameters at live.com:
http://help.live.com/Help.aspx?market=en-US&project=WL_Searchv1&querytype=topic&query=WL_SEARCH_REF_Keywords.htm

I tried throwing the AND operator into a Google search with the "link:" operator, but it failed.

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