Anyone know how to find where an email address is listed?

the mailto link has the anchor text different to the address itself

[bluecorr]

Is there any way to search in Google all pages listing the address [e-mail] but that could have foo as anchor text? for example <a href="mailto:[e-mail]>foo</a>

In the past two days I've received two emails (didn't look like spam at all) sent to [e-mail]. However on my website I do not have posted this address so naturally I'm wondering where they got my email address from. It's too much of a coincidence that they both used the same address in 2 consecutive days.

Both emails were sent to
To: "Surname, Name" <[e-mail]>

[topr8]

don't think this is how your email was obtained.

[percentages]

Nope, I doubt this has anything to do with a Google search or a spider grabbing email addresses.

I get offered at least once per week a CD containing 350,000 email addresses and names of prospective clients in my particular specialist category. That type of thing is probably where they got your email address and name from.

[mack]

It is very probably the email addresses on cd rom as said by the previous poster. You could however do a google search for the specific anchor text in "" that woudld turn up any links to your email addy.

[Brett_Tabke]

It's impossible to figure out how bulk mailers come up with your email address. It could be from a million different locations.

Was there some reason you felt that the >foo</a> was important?

I don't know of anyway you can search from something like that Google - sure should be. There are alot of specific searches like that, where other engines excell. (try fast or alta)

[bluecorr]

I assumed someone clicked on the foo link where foo is "Surname, Name"