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Search Engines and Directories
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Alta Vista
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http://www.altavista.com |
AltaVista recognizes capitalization,
names and titles. Can search by date, filetype, location.... |
Ask.com
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http://www.askjeeves.com |
Questions help narrow search.
Simultaneously searches other sites. Interprets natural language |
Bing |
http://www.bing.com/ |
Microsoft search engine with phone apps |
Direct Hit
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http://www.directhit.com/
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Ranks a site based on the number of same subject
pages that reference it, not just general popularity. Does
not
support boolean searches. |
Dogpile
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http://www.dogpile.com |
searches search engines, Web directories
/ servers dedicated to indexing Internet Web pages, pay-for-placement:
engines that return sponsored listings, and engines or databases that are
meta-searched specifically for images, products, audio/MP3 and multimedia
files, news, FTP files and message boards |
All the Web
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http://www.alltheweb.com/
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claims it indexes "billions of web pages, hundreds
of millions of multimedia, Audio
and FTP files, as well as tens of millions of PDF and MS Word®
and scans the entire web every 7 - 11 days. Supports searching in 49 different
languages. |
Find How |
http://www.findhow.com/ |
search "how-to" categories and subject areas. |
Google
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http://www.google.com/
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search
by language, file format, date, occurrences, domain name, page specific,
topic specific and allows you to do a "safe search." |
Look Smart
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http://www.looksmart.com |
Explore by topics, global directories.
Find articles feature. |
Metacrawler
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http://www.metacrawler.com |
results include commercial (sponsored)
and
non-commercial results. Designed to identify the intent of a user's
search. "If the search term (i.e. buy roses) is determined to be commercial
in-nature, a blended mix of results weighted towards sponsored results
would be displayed. " |
RefDesk
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http://www.refdesk.com
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Not a search engine. It is a directory of subject
categories, reference site-of-the day, facts-at-a-glance, facts encyclopedia,
reference resources, alphabetized subject categories, current news and
weather, links to google for searches. |
Search.com
(Cnet)
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http://www.search.com/
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" sends your search query to several search engines
at one time and integrates the results into one list" |
Yahoo |
http://search.yahoo.com |
searches theWeb for news, images,
directories, yellow pages, and prpoduct review searches. |
SOME BOOLEAN OPERATORS
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Boolean operators are used to search many databases, incl. libraries,
not only Web-based indexes/directories.
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KEYWORD
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METHOD
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AND
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Finds only documents containing all
of the specified words or phrases. "Computers AND viruses" finds
documents with both the word computers and the word viruses. |
OR
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Finds documents containing at least
one of the specified words or phrases. "Computers OR viruses" finds
documents containing either computers or viruses. The
documents found could contain both, but do not have to. |
NEAR
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Finds documents containing both specified
words or phrases positioned a certain number of words apart (assigned by
the search engine). |
NOT
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Finds only documents which exclude the term after
the word "NOT." "Computers NOT viruses" finds documents with the
word "computers" but not the word "viruses." |
Search
Symbols
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METHOD
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+
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Terms preceeded with "+" indicate
they have priority in the search. |
" "
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Phrases between quotation marks are search exactly
as they are written. |
*
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This symbol is used for Wildcard searching.
For example, comput*
will search Computer, computing, etc. |
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