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Alta
Vista
Alta Vista
claims to index 150 million Web pages. There are both simple and advanced
search forms. The advanced search may be used to do Boolean searching or to
search by date. Alta Vista offers a number of options for searching so read
the help pages for the best results.
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Hotbot
HotBot claims to have indexed every word of 110 million
documents. The expert option allows searches by date, media type, language and
by location. Uses Inktomi search engines.
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Northern
Light
Indexes 129 million web pages.
Search both world wide pages and special collections of magazines and other
materials (you must pay for some of these). Results are organized into folders
based on subject. With the power search option, you may search by date or by
source.
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Snap
Estimated to index 100 million web pages. If you use the search box on the
first Snap page, you will get results from the Snap directory of reviewed
sites with the option to search web pages given at the end of the list. If you
want to search web pages only, use the Power Search option. This option can be
used to search by media type, date, or language.
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Excite
Indexes 55 million web pages. Enter search terms as words or phrases and
Excite's Search Wizard will suggest other possibly relevant search terms.
Searches may be refined by the use of + and -, and by the use of Boolean
operators. Results may include not only web pages but news, Excite directory
sites, and other related web sites.
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Infoseek
Indexes 75 million web pages. Infoseek offers both simple and advanced
searches. The advanced search is found by clicking on Search Options. Results
list of the simple search includes both web sites and links to Infoseek
directory sites. Search results list may be narrowed by using the "search
within results" option, or sorted by date.
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Lycos
Indexes 50 million web pages. Lycos has both simple and advanced search
options. The search results list may be narrowed by using the "search
these results" option. Searches may be filtered using the SearchGuard
option.
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MSN
Search
Estimated to search 40 million web pages. There are both simple and advanced
searches. The advanced search offers several features for narrowing searches
such as language, place of origin, domain, and date modified. MSN uses Inktomi
search engines.
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Webcrawler
Indexes 2 million web pages. Web Crawler supports the use of + and and boolean
searching. Results may be displayed as either titles or summaries.
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Planet
Search
Planet Search has limited search options, and the number of sites indexed is
not given. On the plus side, the relevance rating is very easy to understand,
and date each web site was indexed is included in the results list. It is
possible to see a preview of the web sites listed in the results list before
actually visiting them.
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Magellan
The Magellan search engine searches two types of Web sites - rated and unrated.
The rated sites have been reviewed and rated for "depth, ease of
exploration, and net appeal". In addition, a green light at a rated site
indicates that it contains no content intended for mature audiences. If you
have nothing better to do with your time, you can use the Search Voyeur to see
what real time searches are being performed on Magellan. I personally observed
that a number of people could not spell.
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Google
The order of the results list returned on a Google search is based on a
complicated formula relating to the number of pages linked to the page in
question. The pages with the most links from the most important sites are
given top priority on the list. Click on More Google to find help.
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