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Search Strategies

Quick Reference Guide

  AltaVista Excite InfoSeek Yahoo Hotbot
And +cats +pets cats AND pets

+cats +pets

 +cats +pets +cats +pets Default 

"all the words"
Or cats kittens cats OR kittens cats, kittens Use Options  
Not +cats -wild cats AND NOT wild +cats -wild +cats -wild +cat -wild  
Exact Phrase "pet care" "pet care" "pet care" "pet care" "pet care"
Complex Search (cats or kittens) AND NOT wild (cats or kittens) AND NOT wild N/A N/A  
Truncation Wild Card cat* 

wom*n

 Automatic Suffixes N/A N/A  
Proximity mary~lamb

(within 10 words)

 [mary lamb] (within 25 words) [mary lamb] (within 100 words) N/A  

Alta Vista    http://www.altavista.com

Excite        www.excite.com

InfoSeek    www.infoseek.com

Webcrawler    www.mckinley.com

Yahoo (Yahooligans)    www.yahoo.com    www.yahooligans.com

Hotbot    www.hotbot.com

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This page was updated on:  10/11/11