{"id":158,"date":"2008-11-07T01:38:30","date_gmt":"2008-11-07T05:38:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/patorjk.com\/blog\/?p=158"},"modified":"2014-01-25T17:57:57","modified_gmt":"2014-01-25T21:57:57","slug":"linkfromdomain-operator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/patorjk.com\/blog\/2008\/11\/07\/linkfromdomain-operator\/","title":{"rendered":"Live.com’s linkfromdomain Operator"},"content":{"rendered":"

Most people are pretty familiar with Google’s Advanced Search Operators<\/a>. You can use them to more preciously search for web pages or particular data. Anyway, earlier today I discovered that Microsoft’s search engine, live.com<\/a>, has an amusingly useful search operator that Google doesn’t have. It’s called linkfromdomain. Now, this isn’t new news. I did some Googling and the operator has been around since late 2006, however, since not very many people\u00a0use\u00a0live.com, I figured some of you might find this info useful.<\/p>\n

The linkfromdomain operator allows you to search the websites that a particular website links to. For example, if you search for “linkfromdomain:patorjk.com<\/a>“, you’d get a list of all of the sites I link to throughout this website. At first glance this may not seem that useful, however, it allows you to ask some interesting questions as an individual and as a webmaster. Here are some examples:<\/p>\n