Google URL Searches
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Google URL Searches

Here’s a handy trick with Google: “inurl” searches. You can search for a text string in just the URLs of Google’s index.

For instance, I wanted to know what content management system a certain site used. All of the site’s URLs had the same patten (“/cgi-bin/b7/…”). This search in Google…

inurl:cgi-bin/b7/

…produced a list of pages with this same URL pattern. From there, it wasn’t hard to find one that referenced their platform: Bazaar.

Handy.

by Deane   September 7, 2004 9:22 AM    |   Follow Gadgetopia on Twitter   |  Tags:  Google

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Deane Deane
by Deane,   September 7, 2004 11:03 AM  

Other example, I found a site with an odd file extension (".ivnu"). A Google inurl search produced dozens of sites using this extension, and I eventually found this:

http://www.inetba.com/

Wicked handy.

Deane Deane
by Deane,   September 7, 2004 11:27 PM  

I'm getting a little obsessive now. I saw this in a URL: "/Brix/PageID=1" My search turned up hundreds of pages, most of which were for organizations in the Western Michigan area.

More digging brought me to this:

http://www2.imagegroup.com/Brix?pageID=2

The Image Group out of Holland, Michigan and their CMS called "Brix":

http://www2.imagegroup.com/Brix?pageID=111

All right, I'll stop now.

Gillian Gillian
by Gillian,   January 22, 2005 5:12 PM  

search this and you get a whole load of links to sercurity cameras.

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