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Originally Posted by chrishirst
The only people using the advanced search tools such as link: site: etc are webmasters and SEOs, and these types of users are NOT what SEs care about.
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With Google, I've used backlink searchs when looking for information on very obscure topics. Some pages don't show in the normal search results that will show in the back links.
Also, sometimes, the list of results are so full of crap and spam that if I can find the meat, the backlink search can get more stuff. Most of the time, this give much better results than the "similar pages".
Of course, I'm sure that I'm a rarity.
On the issue of backlinks, I think the referrer logs on the server are the best way to go. They won't show ALL of the backlinks, just the ones people click on (which is more useful anyway) 
Backlinks:
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awk '{print $11}' /var/log/httpd/access_log | sort | uniq | grep -v willcode4beer.com > refferer.txt
Last edited by willcode4beer : 04-13-2007 at 01:24 PM.
Reason: clarity
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