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UNH Search FAQ:
Find links to your pages.
author and contact: cwis.admin@unh.edu
updated 08-OCT-1998

You can use Infoseek to find links to your Web pages, i.e., to find Web pages with an embedded hyperlink to your Web page. This is described in the Infoseek special search syntax. This can be useful for a number of reasons: to satisfy curiosity; to ask people to cross-link who are not now doing so; and to discover whom to notify if you make changes that break an existing link.

We are writing about use of Infoseek on our UNH Intranet collection of Web pages, but the syntax applies to the Internet-wide collection of pages at Infoseek on the Internet. Other search engines, such as AltaVista and HotBot, have still larger collections of indexed pages and similar logic and syntax applies to them, but check the details at their sites.

Examples:

The results quoted in these examples represent a snapshot in time and will likely change.

To find all the links to Web pages on the Computer Science Department's server: 

  link:www.cs.unh.edu
That finds 565 matches. If you want to check for a specific page, include that in the URL. For the Computer Science admissions page: 
  link:www.cs.unh.edu/admit.html
That finds 2 matches. Now, all these matches include links from within Computer Science pages to other Computer Science pages. Suppose we wanted to exclude those and just find links from other people's servers: 
  +link:www.cs.unh.edu -url:www.cs.unh.edu
That produces 28 matches. If we apply this to Infoseek's Internet collection, to look at links from outside of the unh.edu domain: 
  +link:www.cs.unh.edu -url:unh.edu
We get 310 matches.

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