Search engine for HTML?

Returning results in HTML source

[pmkpmk]

I am researching a special HTML construct right now and want to find out if any other site is using this already. But if I plug the statement in question into Google, it strips down all the special characters and only takes the visible text as query string.

I wonder if there is a search engine which searches only HTML as it is - HTML! So if you would search for

<h1>test</h1>

, it would return all pages which have this in their actual HTML source.

[edit]Typo's[/edit]

[edited by: pmkpmk at 11:45 am (utc) on Feb. 22, 2005]

[larryhatch]

You beat me to it! A wonderful idea.
It would make it SO much easier to identify the creeps
with the phony links to my site for one thing.

And, its so simple! A search engine that reads and
indexes markup (html etc.) as if it were plain text.

Probably won't happen. Makes too much sense, and only webmasters would use it.

-Larry

[cooldoug]

That would be a really good idea,but good point Larry. The average person probably doesn't know what HTML or source code is. it would only be of use to webmasters.