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Yahoo
- A very popular search engine with a large index of sites. Additional search tips for Yahoo.
- Search engine with advanced searching capabilities. Additional search tips for Alta Vista.
- Search engine covering Usenet Newsgroups and City.Net, a index of thousands of cities around the world. Additional search tips for Excite.
- Great search engine with a large selection of channels. Additional search tips for Infoseek.
- New search engine with a hip new look.
- Search engine that searches several other search engines at the same time.
General Search Tips:
- Natural Language queries: (always try this first)
- Type a word or phrase or a question (for example, weather Boston or what is the weather in Boston?), then click Search (or press the Enter key). If the information you want from this sort of query isn't on the first couple of pages, try adding a few more specific words.
- Requiring/Excluding Words:
- Often you will know a word that will be guaranteed to appear in a document for which you are searching. If this is the case, require that the word appear in all of the results by attaching a "+" to the beginning of the word (for example, to find an article on pet care, you might try the query dog cat pet +care). You may also find that when you search on a vague topic, you get a very broad set of results. You can quickly reject results by adding a term that appears often in unwanted articles with a "-" before it (for example, to find a recipe for oatmeal raisin cookies without nuts try oatmeal raisin cookie -nut -walnut).
- Exact Phrases:
- If you know that a certain phrase will appear on the page you are looking for, put the phrase in quotes. (for example, try entering song lyrics such as "you ain't nothing but a hound dog")
Last Updated: 03/07/05