Help
Documenting the features of Twingly
Power searching
Searching for blog posts linking to one or more sites.
You can search for blog posts that link to any page on twingly.com.
Example: link:twingly.com
You can also search for posts that link to several sites. This search will return blog posts that link to both twingly.com and techcrunch.com (or any page under those domains).
Example: link:twingly.com,techcrunch.com
You can also use | instead of , to get blog posts that links to either twingly.com or techcrunch.com (or any page under those domains).
Example: link:twingly.com|techcrunch.com
Searching for blog posts from blogs on a specific domain.
You can search for blog posts from blogs on a specific domain. This also matches subdomains. This search matches blog.twingly.com, even if though not directly on twingly.com
Example: site:twingly.com
You can search for blog posts from blogs on one or several domains.
Example: site:twingly.com|primelabs.se
Searching for blog posts from a specific blog.
You can search for blog posts from a specific blog. This only matches against exact urls to blogs, so searching for "blog:twingly.com" does not return any results.
Example: blog:blog.twingly.com
You can also search for blog posts from one of several blogs.
Example: blog:blog.twingly.com|roslingsblogger.blogspot.com
Searching for blog posts written in a specific language.
You can search for blog posts written in a specific language. This will search for blog posts written in Swedish.
Example: lang:sv
You can also specify several languages for your search.
Example: lang:sv|fi
Searching for blog posts tagged with a specific tag.
You can search for blog posts tagged with "election".
Example: tag:election
You can also search for posts with multiple tags.
Example: tag:election,obama
Or you can search for posts tagged with one or many tags.
Example: tag:election|sport|fashion
Searching in the spam-free index
The default is to search in the entire index, with both approved and non-approved blogs.
You can limit the search to only search in the spam-free index.
Example: approved:1
Of course, you can also search among the non-approved blog posts.
Example: approved:0
To search in both approved and non-approved blogs, don't use the approved operator at all.
Searching for blog posts posted within a certain time span
The default is to search in to search for posts posted in any time.
You can search for posts that were posted within the last 24 hours.
Example: tspan:24h
The supported options to tspan are:
- The last hours: h
- The last 12 hours: 12h
- The last 24 hours: 24h
- The last week: w
- The last month: m
Widget
Please see the widget page.