Using the '500' example, you might have noted that the first hit was a
www.fortune.com webpage (at least it was on the search I just tried); Google
(or MSN or Hotbot, or <fill in the blank> all do the same thing. Nowhere in
the host name of the site is there actually the '500', which is an example
of the type of search hits I'm really after. True that 'indy500' just below
(it was actually 4th on my particular search), but what if I were looking
for the site '500searches.com', but wasn't exactly sure about the part that
came after the '500' (I don't know if there's actually such a site; I'm just
using it as an example). Or did the '500' come second, after the word,
etc., etc., ad nauseum.
No search engine I've tried so far will allow me to only search in the
specific site name for the snippet of the name I do remember, whether it's
'500', 'cant' (my true search...why I only remember this bit and not the
rest is beyond me--must be my constant negativity or something) or whatever.
alltheweb.com's engine options comes close, but it treats the snippet as a
complete word and doesn't allow wildcards, so it's filtering out website
names that only use the bit as a portion of a word in a site's name (like
'indy500.com'; as an example, if it had been 'indy-500.com' or
'indy.500.com', alltheweb's engine would've found that, no problem, if it
was registered with them, of course).
Mike Burgess said:
nospam4me,
Have you tried Google?
Search: 500 [Results 1 - 20 of about 58,900,000]
FYI: indy500 is hit #2 .......
http://www.google.com/search?num=20&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&safe=off&q=500&btnG=Google+Search
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nospam4me said:
I don't know where else to ask.
Does anyone know of a search engine that allows someone to search only the
host site's name (excluding pages and other content)? I only recall a
portion of the domain name I'm looking for, but nearly all the engines I've
tried don't limit the search to just looking at the host name. The one I
found that does allow for seaching the host name only (alltheweb.com)
unfortunately treats the search criteria as an entire word, and not only as
a portion (for instance, if you search using '500' at the criteria,
alltheweb will return site results like '
www.500.com' but not
'
www.indy500.com').
Any help would be appreciated.
