Google's inurl search operator lets us search for a term that is part of an URL. This is a very unusual search operator that isn't even documented by Google anymore, so there is a high risk you'll get flagged as a bot if you abuse it. Generally, the site: search operator is a better choice, however there are cases inurl works, while the site operator doesn't.
For example, let's say that we want to find all moderation lists on Bluesky. Because Bluesky is too clever, it sets the <title> of the webpage via Javascript, so Google ended up only indexing the static title, which reads "Bluesky" for every single list. Because every page has the same title, Google assumes they're redundant or repeated information, so it only shows the result it thinks is canonical URL (Bluesky doesn't declare a canonical URL for lists either, so Google has to figure it out on its own). These two things combined somehow mean that the URLs don't show if you search using site:, but they still show if you use inurl.
site:bsky.app/profile/ inurl:listsThe query above will give us results like:
https://bsky.app/profile/sininu.bsky.social/lists/3kmjajhaawl2o
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