Hi all,
On Wed, 12 Apr 2000, the digest contained:
> Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2000 20:54:53 -0400
> From: Audrey <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Re: WWWeb Resources : or my adventures in AltaVista land
(Hi, Audrey. Thanks for mentioning the search engines. :-) )
> ... You
> used Alta Vista .. I found MSN is a far better search engine. I did look at
> Alta Vista too and used Lycos and Excite .. I tried Snap but it had
> limitations ...
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You'll have to excuse me, I really am a big techno-geek at
heart. But, here are some of the reasons that I *love* Al-
taVista:
In the normal search, you can:
Parkinsons The "P" must be upper-case on the page
parkinsons Upper or lower case will not matter
Special characters (like ') are always ignored
+parkinsons The "+" says that term must appear on the page
-sinemet The "-" says that term must not appear on the page
"parkinsons disease" The "s say that the words must appear next to each other
In the advanced search, you can:
carbidopa and levodopa The "and" says both terms must appear on the page
carbidopa or levodopa The "or" says either terms can appear on the page
bill and not frank The "not" says the word must not appear on the page
Nots are evaluated first, then ands, then ors
Use () to cause different order evaluations to occur
bill near geek The "near" says must appear within 10 words of each other
Also, in addition to terms, words, or phrases in either search
you can:
domain:parkinsons.org The "domain:" finds pages only at that site
title:parkinsons The "title:" finds pages with that word in the title
url:parkinsons The "url:" finds pages with that word in the URL
image:brain.jpg The "image:" finds pages with a specific image file name
There is, much, much more. But, like I said, I'm a geek and
this type of power and flexibility appeals to my techno-nerd-per-
sona. :-)
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[!-- Yeah, right! :-)]
Have fun, happy searching, and take care ...
Bill--
...who thinks that people are only trying to make him look paranoid.
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