Searching a web site

[Del]

There is a website that I've never submitted to which comes up in a google search as having my story on it, so much to the point that the search listing displays the first lines of my work.

There is nothing of my story on its webpage, which leads me to believe that it has my story in its site directory.

I once stumbled across a search command that would bypass the index.html file and display the site's directory content. I'm kicking myself for not keeping it. I'm thinking it was like inlist: or something but that fails.

Does anyone know the command, or how I can find out why my story is associated with their site?

Thanks.

[Cuppa]

It's not site:absolutewrite.com/ is it?

[Del]

No, that limits the search to matching criteria to one site only. What I'm trying to remember gave me an actual directory like:

Parent Directory
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Directory of absolutewrite.com/forums/

bird,gif
content.txt
image.jpg
index.html
signin.scr

[alleycat]

Have you tried just backing up the URL little by little?

Most websites have security in place these days to prevent casual "hacking" of the website by poking around in their directory tree.

[Cuppa]

intitle:index.of site:anysite.com MyStory

Is that it?

[Del]

After investigating much of the day, I believe the quotes are remnants of broken links and not a matter of piracy. Still, it is sad that we can lose control of our work like that. It's only 130 characters but at this time I'd rather they not be there.

The ability to bypass a website's index file seems to be a thing of the past. Just FYI.

Thanks for the help.

[Matera the Mad]

Yeah, if we really don't want people snooping our raw directory listings we can lock them up. Also possible to ban search engines from parts of a site. Not all the Web is open to the public, even the clever public. H4x0rz, maybe.

[BigWords]

Not all the Web is open to the public, even the clever public.

I can't remember exactly where I picked up the statistic, but I have heard the "80% of the web is not searched" line thrown around a bit. Maybe that is too oblique, as there are reasons why Google only covers a fraction of the available data - some of the "hidden web" is on-the-fly results (for insurance sites, for example), or are private nets, such as that used by computer graphics studios (which needs to be kept from the general public). I'm sure someone will be along to give my ramblings more clarity, with proper citations of source material and better examples...