The Alta Vista link:site command

[Rzepa, Henry]

A fascinating option in the Alta vista search engine;
http://www.altavista.digital.com/
has been pointed out to me. Go to advanced options, and in
the command line, enter say
link:www.altavista.digital.com
This will tell you how many documents Alta Vista knows about
that have a hyperlink to www.altavista.digital.com

It can be a humbling/enlightening experience to find out if any
one has bothered to link to what you consider the best home page
in the universe!  Might be worth citing in  your next grant application
if the number is  > 10.  There also is an interesting normalisation
problem. What number is worth getting excited about?

Dr Henry Rzepa,  Dept. Chemistry,  Imperial College,  LONDON SW7 2AY;
rzepa at ic.ac.uk; Tel  (44) 171 594 5774; Fax: (44) 171 594 5804.
URL: http://www.ch.ic.ac.uk/rzepa/  


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