4 sample hacks.

Posted by: John S. Rhodes on February 22, 2003 10:01 AM

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This could be interesting. I hope it will help me do something I've always been able to do at alltheweb.com: search for pages that link to my site that are not part of my site. Putting a minus sign in fornt of the term "site:www.samueljohnson.com" ain't it, although leaving the minus sign off does limit pages to those that come from my site.

Posted by: Frank on February 22, 2003 01:24 PM

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And if you are not successful with excluding your internal links, as I expect, you could have a look at tools like the link analysis tool Optilink. With it you would be able to get all your referrers (from several engines) and have the option to include or exclude all your internal or external links as you like. The only downside - it costs a lot more then the book ;-)

On the other side, using the GoogleAPI should give you the ability to do the referrer-job by yourself, first requesting the backlinks via link:www.yourdoman.com and subsequently removing your urls from the result list. Happy programming!

But perhaps the solution is in the book, and if not it should be in there with the second edition ;-)

Posted by: Gerald on February 22, 2003 07:35 PM

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I have been 'hacking' google for a while now and am interested in reading this book.

But....

John, you need an associates account with amazon.co.uk (and .ca, .de etc.) so that I can use your link.

Can I actually buy this book yet?
The amazon.com page states "This item will be released on February 1, 2003" whilst the amazon.co.uk site states "usually dispatched within 3 to 5 weeks"

Can I buy this book now or not? This is why Amazon can only ever score 6/10 for me.

Posted by: Mac - Dont Attack Iraq on February 23, 2003 11:13 AM

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