Search Features > Search Features: Commands
Apr. 23, 2008 at 6:04pm by Rae Hoffman
Link Development Tool Shortcuts For Firefox
A few weeks back I did a post on my blog about creating Firefox quick search bookmarks. I was surprised at how well received it was, though I think people were most pleased with the fact that I had created a download of a very small selection of the...
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Jul. 3, 2007 at 9:01am by Barry Schwartz
Google Search URL Parameters Explained
Appending different parameters to the end of the Google search URL string can often extend the Google search results into something that may be more tailored for your specific search. Joost de Valk created a Google Web search parameters cheat sheet (PDF file) that contains a comprehensive list of many...
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Apr. 9, 2007 at 5:12pm by Eric Ward
Addicted to Link Research?
It's been a little over a week since MS Live Search disabled linking related advanced queries. The post itself announcing the decision was short, but the commentary that followed it was anything but. What's the big deal? The search engines never had to give us this data in the...
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Mar. 15, 2007 at 10:17pm by Danny Sullivan
Google Now Reporting Anchor Text Phrases
Hurray! Finally, you can get a report from Google of the top anchor text phrases used when people link to your site. Google Webmaster Central has just announced the new feature. But didn't Google already report anchor text data? Yes, but only keywords, not phrases. Keywords are mostly useless junk...
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Feb. 22, 2007 at 1:24pm by Barry Schwartz
Yahoo To Redirect More Search Query Types Site Explorer
August of last year, Yahoo began pointing "link:" and "linkdomain:" without other search operators queries towards Site Explorer. Today, Yahoo will be redirecting "domain:" and "hostname:" queries to Site Explorer as well. So if you do a search at search.yahoo.com and it is using those query types, they will soon...
