GENERAL SEARCH ENGINES
Most search engines use the following commands:
- Use " " to search phrases:
- "Statue of Liberty"
- Use * to truncate words:
- polit* (retrieves politics, political, etc.)
- Use ( ) to group similar terms:
- cancer and (smoking or cigarettes)
- AlltheWeb.com - (Overture)
- AllSearchEngines.com
- AltaVista - (Overture)
- AOL Search
- Ask.com
- Beaucoup
- BigHub (Webfile)
- Centrapoint
- DogPile - (InfoSpace, Inc.)
- Excite - (AskJeeves, Inc.)
- Fazzle
- Galaxy.com
- Gigablast
- Go.com - (now Overture)
- HotBot - (Lycos, Inc.)
- InfoMine
- Kanoodle
- LookSmart
- Lycos
- MetaEureka
- MSN Search
- Togglebot
- Webcrawler - (InfoSpace, Inc.)
- MetaIQ
- Open Directory
- Overture
- Proteus
- RedESearch
- TopClick
- Web Brain
- Wisenut
- Yahoo!
