search.htm: Duh! My Search Engine Page

DUH! MY SEARCH ENGINE PAGE

Industrial strength searching

Mad_Phoneman and Fravia 2001

Best!	Google (*)		Advanced Altavista (*)		Raging (*)
Main	FTP-search	Fast (*)	Astalavista	Hotbot (*)	Northernlight	Infoseek
Auxil	Go_to	Yahoo!	Magellan	Lycos	Webcrawler	Excite

(*) = text only (or almost text only): no frills, quicker searches

Some have come, some have gone...this is the latest version of the famous search page, stolen with permission of Fravia.

ALTAVISTA ADVANCED SEARCH Only 200 results viewable!

Use the Simple search (which defaults to OR) ONLY if you really know what you are doing

Simple search - Graphic Version

ALTAVISTA SIMPLE SEARCH Only 200 results viewable!
Read the [Altavista in depth] page
No boolean! It defaults to OR: use Advanced instead! (unless you know what you are doing)

RAGING Only 200 results viewable!
The quickest tool on the web. Text-only version, of course!

YAHOO

EXCITE Only 1000 results viewable!
Tries to guess and figure out what you really want: a mixed blessing
New "precision" search since June 2000 (see below)

Describe what you want to find using Excite...
I want to search		Do not use query syntax in the search forms below
My search results MUST contain
My search results MUST NOT contain
My search results CAN contain

Display my results by document with	and	results per page.
Display the top 40 results grouped by web site.

Excite new "precision" Search (June 2000)
normal search: [http://www.excite.com/search/]

advanced search: [http://www.excite.com/search/advanced/]

Google
Very quick, very accurate and very useful because it has CACHED pages!
(in google it does not hurt to put a + before every queryword :-)

ASTALAVISTA

MAGELLAN

LYCOS Only 100-250 results viewable!

"Part Man, Part Machine" ~ Open Directory & Wise wire systems organize results: avoid "Web Pages" (spammed) and use "Categories" and "Web Sites" results instead.

Lycos advanced: fields Lycos advanced: language Lycos advanced: link referrals
Lycos help page

FTP search [the famous "Trondheim" server]
Over 200 million files have been catalogued by Lycos, now managing the famous Trondheim engine, and can be searched using either the lycos_ftp normal form or the lycos_ftp advanced form (the one below). Do not underestimate the amazing power of this tool for searching purposes! A true searchmachine!

Search for
Search type:Try exact hits first
Max hits:Max matches:Max hits/match:
Limit to domain: Limit to path:
Hide: Packages Distfiles FreeBSD OpenBSD NetBSD Linux

Formatting Parameters
Output fields:
Per-host header: nothingjust hostHost and country
Sort by: nothing (unsorted)Host, pathHost (distance)Size, dateDate, host
Truncate hostnames (longer than characters.)

WEBCRAWLER

Search the web and show for results

INFOSEEK Only 500 results viewable!
"Proximity champion", Expert ~S~eekers always use this engine for proximity queries.
Note the "Search within results" option at the bottom.

Search
   ADJ, ADJ/#, OADJ, OADJ/#, NEAR
NEAR/#, ONEAR, ONEAR/#
FAR , FAR/#, OFAR, OFAR/#,

ADJ (adjacent words in any order)

ADJ/# (# number of words apart - exact)

0ADJ (adjacent words in specified order)

0ADJ/# (# number of words apart - exact - in specified order)

NEAR (within 25 words)

NEAR/#(within # words)

ONEAR (within 25 words in specified order)

ONEAR/#(within # words in specified order)

FAR (more than 25 words from each other in at least ONE instance)

FAR/#(more than # words from each other in at least ONE instance)

OFAR (more than #25 words from each other in at least ONE instance in specified order)

OFAR/#(more than # words from each other in at least ONE instance in specified order)

HOTBOT Only 1000 results viewable!

Its 'popularity' result engine is a mixed bless. Note the "Search within these results" option!
Try it! [Hotbot BETA supersearch form]

    2 years default value!
Pages Must Include: image MP3   video JavaScript
Return Results:


NORTHERN LIGHT

With his unique folders feature (dynamically generated by the search results!) to refine your query (very useful & powerful)

Select: All Sources -- Search the World Wide Web & Special Collection

World Wide Web -- Search the entire World Wide Web

Special Collection -- 1 million articles not on other search engines

northern light power search
FAST ("Alltheweb")

European search technology

Search for

FAST's new [Advanced Search]
Note that you can restrict the advanced search to a single domainname (leaving every other parameter unchecked) and thus get a 'sitemap' of a given site:
FAST's Altavista ad hoc ['sitemap']
FAST's [help]

GO_TO

Ranks results by how much a company is willing to pay for listings.

RUSSIAN FTP SEARCH

And finally...

Kresch's List

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Search for
FAST's new [Advanced Search] Note that you can restrict the advanced search to a single domainname (leaving every other parameter unchecked) and thus get a 'sitemap' of a given site: FAST's Altavista ad hoc ['sitemap'] FAST's [help]