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In the early days of Google, they used to be a `link:URL` option which returned pages that link to URL. e.g. `link:https://news.ycombinator.com` https://news.y
by ivan_ah 11y ago
In the early days of Google, they used to be a `link:URL` option which returned pages that link to URL.
e.g. `link:https://news.ycombinator.com` https://news.ycombinator.com` would return search results of webpages that link to HN.
I had to abandon a project when they stopped supporting that...
- naveen99 11y agoThey claim to provide link: functionality within Info: operator. https://support.google.com/websearch/answer/2466433?p=adv_operators&hl=en&rd=1 https://support.google.com/websearch/answer/2466433?p=adv_op... Edit: Actually link: still works also
- ivan_ah 11y agoIndeed, there seems to be some support for `link:HASH:URL` search operator, but only works for very large volume websites, e.g. it works on news.ycombinator.com but not on small and medium websites. still... it could be partially useful.