5th June 2001

Refining your search results to a set of results smaller than 326,784 hits is essential in finding what you're really going after. With the help of a few tricks, you can alter how results are filtered. For instance, specifying "url:lockergnome" (without the quotes, of course) at AltaVista will result in all links with lockergnome in the URL. Similarly, using "link:lockergnome.com" shows you the sites that link to the domain of choice. If you care to specify a particular top-level domain to refine your query, then use "domain:uk lockergnome.com" which displays all of the .uk sites that have links back to lockergnome.com. Try it on other search engines and directories for different results, natch.