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Last post 28 Sep 2009 4:27 PM by Matthew Gerry. 4 replies.
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  • 13 Mar 2009 2:50 PM

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    This query came up from one of our magazine teams today. I didn't know the answer and Google's help pages don't seem to cover it;

    Can any of you please tell me what the difference is between the following searches on Google? Each one returns different results, but I have not been able to find anything about it in the Google help pages.

    Link:hortweek.com

    Links:hortweek.com

    Link: hortweek.com (note the space)

    Links: hortweek.com

    I know that Link:[URL] is supposed to return the pages that link back to the site.

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  • 28 Sep 2009 4:05 PM
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     In short Google is searching for the other variants.

     Look at the top right of the search results when you type in link:hortweek.co.uk and you will notice it says "...linking to hortweek.co.uk"

    In the other versions Google is simply searching for them, hence the different results etc.

  • 28 Sep 2009 4:18 PM
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    Thanks Dan - good to get a reply after a year!

  • 28 Sep 2009 4:24 PM
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     I am sure you probably already had an answer from somewhere, but no problem!

  • 28 Sep 2009 4:27 PM
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    I hadn't. I'm fairly sure Google have made minor alterations to the UI for this and it is now much clearer why the results sets are different.

     
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