Simon's Minimal Search Engines

More search engines....
Alta Vista   My favorite!

Do not use AND or OR to combine words, simply type a few words or phrases.
To find a bed-time story: "fairy tale" +frog -dragon

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DejaNews Search the UseNet

Enter as much as you know: The name of the author, the subject, the name of the mailing list, ...
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Excite

Enter words describing aconcept or keywords:
and search in
Web documents: One of the largest web databases, more than 11.5 million pages.
Reviews: Database of over 50,000 web site reviews.
Usenet: More than 1 million articles from 10,000 newsgroups.
Classified: Usenet classified advertisements from the past two weeks.
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InfoSeek Guide (frames version)
(fast version)

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Lycos

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Magellan Reviews of WWW-sites
Enter one or more words.

Example: wooden boat
Finds records that contain either "wooden" or "boat" or both.

Example: the wooden boat
Finds records that contain either "wooden" or "boat" or both; it ignores the word "the."

Example: wooden - boat
Finds records that contain "wooden" but not "boat."

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Yahoo

Search for keys
Search Yahoo!    Usenet (DejaNews)   Email Addresses (Four11)
Find matches that contain
At least one of the keys (boolean or)
All keys (boolean and)
Consider keys to be
Substrings
Complete words
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