SiteSeeker and special queries
3/12/2013SiteSeeker offers many special queries for different purposes. Here follows a summary of these:
URLs and links
URL arguments in search queries with url: and link: may be written either with or without the hostname (i.e. the name of the server). If you do not supply a host name, all indexed servers are searched for a match.
Note that the interface may not allow special queries! Use the template search page which is accessible through the link My Search page in SiteSeeker Admin to test if it works, should you encounter problems.
Search query |
Example |
Result |
url: | url:specialqueries.html |
indexed page with specified URL |
url: | url:s* | indexed pages with a URL beginning with the supplied string |
link: | link:specialqueries.html |
indexed pages that link to a page with a given URL |
link: | link:s* | indexed pages that link to pages with a URL beginning with the supplied string |
link: | link:www.w3.org | indexed pages which link to another website, set servername only |
link:mailto | link:mailto | indexed pages which contain mailto-links (it is not possible to set a specific recipient) |
link:dead | link:dead | indexed pages that have dead internal links |
meta:linkdepth | meta:linkdepth = 1 | pages with link depth 1 |
Titles and content
Search query | Example | Result |
title:none | title:none |
all pages without a title |
title:bad | title:bad | all pages with a poor title |
title:real | title:real | all pages where the original title is displayed in the results list. |
title:headline | title:headline | all pages where the headline of the page is used as title in the results list. |
title:text | title:text | all pages where text from the beginning of the page is used as title in the results list. |
title:meta | title:meta | all pages where a meta attribute is used as title in the results list. |
title:link | title:link | all pages where a link text is used as title in the results list. |
title:filename | title:filename | all pages where the file name is used as title in the results list |
intitle:car |
intitle:car |
all pages of which the title contains the word "car" |
navigation:identified | navigation:identified | all pages where SiteSeeker has automatically detected navigational sections (e.g. menus) |
content:code | content:code | all pages which contains a lot of source code |
content:hasattachment | content:hasattachment | all pages which have attachments |
content:isattachment | content:isattachment | all pages which are attachments |
Filtering and sorting
Search query | Example | Result |
filetype: | filetype:html filetype:pdf |
All pages of a given file type, valid values: html, pdf, doc, xls, ppt, text and rtf |
sort: | search term sort:title search term sort:date search term sort:date sort:title search term sort:reverse:date search term sort:category search term sort:relevance (search term sort:random) |
hits on search terms sorted in alphabetical order by titles, by date, by date then title if date is equal, in reverse date order, by category, by relevancy, or randomly. |
lang: | search term lang:sv search term lang:en |
hits on search terms in the chosen language (in this case swedish or english) – note that ISO-language codes are to be used (not country codes). |
Metadata and categories
Read more about how you search within multiple categories at the same time.
Diagnostic queries
Search query | Example | Result |
siteseeker:version | siteseeker:version | The version number of the SiteSeeker server that answers a request |
conversion:failed | conversion:failed | All non-HTML documents that cannot be read by SiteSeeker (i.e. not converted into searchable text) |
siteseeker:best-bets | siteseeker:best-bets | list of all best bets |
date:none | date:none | All pages and documents without a Last-Modified date |
date:meta | date:meta | all pages and documents where a meta tag has been used for publication or modification date |
siteseeker:meta | siteseeker:meta | information about indexed meta data |
Conceal search terms with the prefix hidden:
There is a specific prefix, hidden which "conceals" search terms. This method can be of great use when you set a query extension (in SiteSeeker for EPiServer for example).
The possibility to search by using diagnostic queries can be turned off in SiteSeeker Admin.
Examples of special queries
By using different special queries, you can for example display:
Dead links in pages from a certain writer
If for a web page has the meta tag <meta name="author" content="John Smith"> and also has a dead link, the search query link:dead author:"John Smith" display this page as a result..
Which indexed pages that links to a certain page
With the special query link:URL, for example. link:www.location.com/product/index.html or just link:product/index.html you can easily find out which indexed pages that links to a certain page. The search engine will display all indexed pages that contains links to this page. You can also use * in the end of the search query to see which pages that links to a group of pages, for example .link:product/*. All pages with links to any of the pages in the catalogue products/ are displayed in the results list.