Retrieving the web pages containing links to a web site

Dear All,
I need to retrieve an exhaustive list of the web pages that contains a link to the site
"www.yyyy.it" and the string xxxx.

Actually I performed the google search "linkyyyy.it xxxx".

Does anybody know any other tool or technique to get this list?

Best Regards,
Andrea Liguoro

Well, what you are getting are the google results for a given query.
http//support.google.com/websearch/bin/answer.py?hl=en&p=adv_sitespecific&answer=1734233

you have to take into account several factors.

• results coming from google are "results coming from google", they are not in any way "complete" or "exhaustive", they simply represent "what google thinks you are looking for and that it is willing to serve you".
• different (national/regional) google sites (example google.it vs. google.com) may provide you with different results
• different locations (IP address) from which the query is originated may provide different results
• results of a query on google may be affected by your previous google search history
• google is (the major but only) "a" search engine, there are tens or hundreds of them some more aimed to "local" or "regional" areas of the Internet, some aimed to a given scope (like SEO and the like) some only revolving around a "topic"

Just as an example bing
http//onlinehelp.microsoft.com/en-us/bing/ff808421.aspx
has a number of operators that may be useful, altavista/yahoo has a few different ones
http//us.yhs4.search.yahoo.com/web/advanced?ei=UTF-8&fr=altavista&p=
etc., etc.

Here are (supposedly) the top search engines by traffic/user preferences
http//www.ebizmba.com/articles/search-engines
http//netforbeginners.about.com/od/navigatingthenet/tp/top_10_search_engines_for_beginners.htm

BUT, just as another example, if you are looking for something connected to China you cannot ignore Baidu
http//www.baidu.com/

jaclaz

jaclaz makes a solid point that google only gives what they are willing to give.

I would add duckduckgo to your list of search engines to try. Syntax info found here http//help.duckduckgo.com/customer/portal/articles/300304-syntax

Google will probably give you the most extensive list anyway. Not a complete list of course (this would not be possible, even theoretically, whatever search engine you use), but quite extensive.

Google will probably give you the most extensive list anyway. Not a complete list of course (this would not be possible, even theoretically, whatever search engine you use), but quite extensive.

Sure ) , what I was hinting was the risk of falling in a logical fallacy of thinking that something only exists if it is found in google and that anything that is not found on google does not exist.
If a given site is returned by that google search and can be reached

1. it exists
2. it contains (or contained until a short time before - check also google cache) the searched for link

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This does not mean in any way that a zillion other sites may exist and they are simply not indexed by google or indexed but not returned by that search.

Using several different search engines, whilst obviously creating mainly duplicates, may increase the number of unique hits, particularly for "regional" searches.

jaclaz