# Dave's Net Searching Shortcut Page.

# Alta Vista

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## snap.com

Search for: Search Tips More Search Terms: Return Results: Search All Pages Search Only Top-level Pages

Date Range: Anytime From , 19 To , 19 Media Type: (Ctrl or command click to select multiple or deselect options) Extension (.gif, .txt, etc.) Location: Domain (.com, .edu), Website (e.g., www.cnet.com), Country Code (.uk, .fr, .jp) Language:

## Northern Light

Search for:
Words anywhere: |  |  | help
Words in title: |  |
Publication name: |  |  | See our list of publications.
Words in URL: |  |  |
Select: | Special Collection World Wide Web All Sources

|  | SELECT DATE RANGE
| Fill in one date field or both to narrow your results by date.
| Start date: End date:mm/dd/yy
| Sort results by date
|  | SELECT SOURCES -- All Sources below
Journals & Magazines News archives Personal pages | Commercial web sites Medical sources Non-profit web sites | Educational web sites Military web sites Government web sites
Documents written in: |  | Web sites from: |

# Infoseek Guide

- Tips

Search: | Web pages, | Usenet, | News

# Deja News

- Tips
- Deja Power Search (external)

(For help see Deja's Search Language Help.)

Limit Search

Subject: |  | FAQ or (frequently asked questions)
Newsgroup: |  | comp.unix.admin or comp.*
From: |  | demos@deja.com
Dates: | From To | Apr 5 1997

Match keywords | Archive: | Results type:
Language: | Database: |

Organize Results

Sort by | Results per page | Results format

# Excite

- Tips
- Power Search

# Lycos

- Tips

Search
for
Display Options:

# MetaCrawler

- Power Search

as a Phrase, All of these words, Any of these words,
on

# Magellan

- Rates and reviews sites according to content and presentation.

# WebCrawler

- Use AND, OR and NOT operators.
- Use (parenthesis) to remove ambiguity from search operators (e.g. McKenna AND (Dennis OR Terence)).
- Use NEAR/# to find two keywords within a certain number of words of each other (e.g. lsd NEAR/20 tattoo or alkaloid NEAR/25 extraction)
- Use ADJ to find keywords that appear together in a specific order (e.g. cannabis ADJ indica)
- Use "quotes" to denote a phrase (e.g. "self-transforming machine elves").

Showing
for
rexults.

# Yahoo!

- The yellow pages of the web.

Search
finding
treating keys as
and returning
matches.

# Other search engines:

## TopClick | #### No cookies, no banner ads, no personal data disclosed
## All4One | #### Search the web using four indexes simultaneously, viewing the results on a single page.
## Open Directory Project | #### a.k.a. NewHoo.
## HotBot | #### From Wired magazine.
## Argus Clearinghouse | #### Subject-oriented internet resource guides
## c|net: search.com | #### More than 250 ways to search the Net
## SavvySearch | #### Queries many search engines simultaneously, picking the most useful.