A few days ago, I mentioned an advanced Google search operator site: as in site:softwarejourney.blogspot.com. You use the site: operator to match against the domain and the host name. The site: operator does not support port numbers, e.g., www.somesite.com:8080. Also, it will not match the directory or the file name. For those kinds of searches, you need another operator/hack, inurl:.
The inurl: operator will try to match the thing you specify against the characters anywhere along the url, including the port #, the directory, and the filename. For example, if you enter inurl:blog, you may get these results back:
www.somedomain.org/blog/
www.blogger.com/
www.peterleung.com/somedir/blog.html
The inurl: operator comes in handy when you know a keyword is in the url (perhaps, even the filename), but the keyword may not be in the title or the body of the HTML document.
Google has become an indispensable tool in my live (and perhaps yours too), and getting more proficient at Google shouldn't hurt.
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