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Such Great Heights
Jul 13th 2004, 8:55 am
What is the easiest way to check/tell if you are in a certain search engine's database?

I know Google you can just type in the URL, but what about all the other search engines.

Lets say I wanted to show a client that a certain page ( ie. www.domain.com/page1.php ) is in as many search engine databases as you can be.
OR
Lets say a client wanted to know how many search engine databases their press release page ( www.domian.com/pressrelease1.php ) is available in.

Is there a tool that checks all the databases?
Is there a manual way I can do it?
searching just the URL doesn't always seem to work.

Thanks in advance for your help and advice.

- Sean
Such Great Heights
Jul 14th 2004, 8:53 am
nobody knows the answer, or at least a suggestion? :(
l0cke
Jul 14th 2004, 9:06 am
http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=174&highlight=link+popularity
Arnica
Jul 14th 2004, 2:36 pm
Is there a manual way I can do it?
I would always do a phrase search for something that's going to be reasonably unique to the page or combine a phrase search with a company/author name. That generally narrows the results sufficiently to check if you're listed easily.

Mick
Such Great Heights
Jul 15th 2004, 9:37 am
I was thinking maybe if I could get a listing of all the spiders/robots that visited a certain URL I could then determine which databases that URL would be in.

I was hoping I wouldn't have to manually go to every search engine and check though.

That link popularity tool isn't exactly the greatest answer for this, but I guess it does check with the major search engines.

I've used it before, but didn't think to use it for this purpose.

Thanks for the suggestions. Any others?
l0cke
Jul 15th 2004, 10:05 am
I was thinking maybe if I could get a listing of all the spiders/robots that visited a certain URL I could then determine which databases that URL would be in.Do you have access to your server logs?
megri
Jul 15th 2004, 11:39 pm
In google you can check your whole site pages site:domain.com. You will find all your site page listed . If you want to search your site only you can do so by site:domain.dom keyword