Search Engines: What Do They Know About You?
So, after yesterday’s post you’ve added your website to some of the search engines and you want to know if they are reading your insightful, inspired and witty content?
Easy!
For either Yahoo or Google you can easily find out what pages they have indexed by using the “site:” command. For example, to find pages of this blog that have been crawled and indexed, you would search for site:blog.primatedesigns.com - Google will display a list of pages, and Yahoo will display it’s site explorer.
There are a few other handy commands to be used on Google in exactly the same way:
- link: - Shows all pages which link to your website’s front page
- cache: - Google’s current cache of your website
- info: - Information that Google has about your website
- related: - Pages which Google believes are similar to your website
Yahoo provides similar further information once you are viewing your website in their Site Explorer.