Using Search Engines

Alta Vista's search language

"exact phrase"

Finds pages which contain exactly this phrase

+important word

Finds pages which include 'important', preferring those which also include 'word'

important -word

Finds pages which include 'important' but not 'word'

this near that

Finds pages which include 'this' near 'that'

this and that

Finds pages which include both 'this' and 'that'

this or that

Finds pages which include either 'this' or 'that'

host:www.jasmine.org.uk

Finds pages just on our Web server

domain:org.uk

Finds pages on all servers in the 'org.uk' domain, that is personal and not-for-profit sites in the UK

image:auchencairn

Finds pages with pictures of Auchencairn...

link:www.jasmine.org.uk

Finds pages which have links to our server

title:Jasmine

Finds pages with 'Jasmine' in the title

auchen*

Finds pages with words which start with 'auchen'

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