Search Engine Opperators
Table Symbols: [x] means supports [o] means excludes [*] mean stemming
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Directory |
Search
Engine |
Multi-Engine |
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Encyclopedia Britannica |
AltaVista
Go ogle |
Dogpile |
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LookSmart |
Excite Hotbot |
Mamma |
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Yahoo* |
Info seek
Northern Light |
Metacrawler |
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OneKey Snap |
SavvySearch |
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Search Tool
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Operators |
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Boolean (and
not or near) |
Plus/Minus +containing -excluding |
“Quote” phrase as sing. term |
Stemming |
Case Sensitive |
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AltaVista |
x |
x |
x |
* |
x |
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Dog pile |
x |
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x
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o |
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Encyc.
Brit. |
x |
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x |
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x |
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Excite |
x |
x |
x |
o |
o |
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Google |
o |
x |
x |
o |
o |
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HotBot |
x |
x |
x |
x |
x |
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Infoseek |
o |
x |
x |
x |
x |
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LookSmart |
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MetaFind |
x |
|
x
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Mamma |
x |
x |
x |
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x
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MetaCrawler |
|
x
|
x |
|
o |
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NorthernLight |
o |
x |
x |
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o |
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OneKey |
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SavvySearch |
o |
x |
x |
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o
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Snap |
x |
x |
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x |
x |
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Yahoo |
x |
x |
x |
* |
x |
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Table Symbols: [x] means supports [o] means excludes [*] mean stemming