96How to search on Google for symbols? I'd like to find all the urls on my site that have ? in them.
Is there a way to search on Google for symbols in urls. I've tried allinurl and inurl but can't seem to get it to look for question marks.
asked by Paul Edmondson 5 months ago
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muratos says
I think Google doesn't allow certain symbols to be searched as a query.
For example & is allowed and converted to %26 and returning results
http://www.google.com/search?q=%26
But ? without a success and ignored by Google search. Yahoo is the same
I would use a full site crawler like WinHTtrack for a small site.
It is free and allows to set scan rules for URLs what to include in searches. I am not sure but it should also allow to retrieve site index without really storing the retrieved html pages in local machine. It can be a solution for a small website both for finding broken and unwanted type links.
For huge sites like hubpages, I don't know really what to do except direct SQL db query :)
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