Find an email address for a domain using Google?

Question

Description of the problem:

I need all the pages containing email addresses for this domain. I'm not sure what the query should be?

I tried something like -

@ cnn.com

but it doesn’t work ... any ideas?

Answer 1

What you are trying to do is not possible with a Google search. According to their help:

  Generally, punctuation is ignored, including @ # $% ^ & * () = + [] \ and other special characters. 

http://www.google.com/support/websearch/bin/answer.py?answer=134479

Answer 2

You can do this search on Bing, at least it worked for me

"@domain.com" 

This should do the trick (it worked for me)

Answer 3

Not perfect, but sometimes it returns a gem. Google search: (email | mailto | contact) * cnn.com

You request "all pages in the domain", so in theory, something like "site: cnn.com (email | mailto | contact) * cnn.com" might work

Answer 4

This can be very useful for spammers, so I think that a list of all email addresses is not possible just by viewing them on Google :)

BTW. Do you really have a reason to do this? (You are not another spammer?)