# Dave's Net Searching Shortcut Page.

# Alta Vista

Search

From: To:

# Infoseek Guide

- Tips

Search: | Web pages, | Usenet, | News

# Deja News

- Tips
- Deja Power Search (external)

### Search options:

> Find messages in the
> archive

Keywords matched: | All | Any
Usenet database: | Current | Old
Article date bias: | Prefer new | Prefer old
Article date weight: | Some | Great | None
Hitlist detail: | Concise | Detailed
Hitlist format: | Listed | Threaded
Number of hits per page: | 30 | 60 | 100
Sort by (per page): | Score | Newsgroup | Date | Author

# 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:

## All4One | #### Search the web using four indexes simultaneously, viewing the results on a single page.
## The Best Search Engines | #### A functional list of several.
## 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.