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According to https://support.google.com/websearch/answer/2466433?p=adv_pages_similar&hl=en&rd=1, link:
should find pages that link to a certain page, but that feature doesn't seem to work.
Even the example they give (link:youtube.com
) gives me no results at all (did not match any documents).
That doesn't seem to work for me, it just interprets the text in the URL. I'm guessing that they may have removed the original
link:
feature rather than changed it. – James P – 2015-11-05T10:41:55.083@James
linkto:
works for me. For example, when I search forlinkto:youtube.com
, I get 405,000,000 results, butlink:youtube.com
gives me 0 results. – user1387866 – 2015-11-05T16:16:48.263I tried it with the website of the company I work for and it returned irrelevant results based on the word "link" and the words in the URL. That is why you get loads of results for YouTube; it is looking for the pages that mention YouTube rather than those that specifically link to it. – James P – 2015-11-05T16:30:07.163