Search Engines
AltaVista, Fast Search, Northern Light, Google

Search Engine

 Main Search Page Supports Advanced Search Page Supports Other Options & Features

Alta Vista
www.altavista.com

 

 

 

 

 

-Implied Boolean (+) & (-) signs
-Double quotes (" ")
-Stop words

 

 

 

 

-Full Boolean operators AND, OR, & AND NOT
-Clustering option
-Implied Boolean (+) & (-) signs
-Double quotes (" ")
-Nesting
-Proximity operator NEAR
-Searching by date
-No stop words

-RealNames, for products, corporations, & services
-Company factsheet search
-"More pages from this site" search
-Translator services
-Case sensitivity

 

 

Fast Search
www.alltheweb.com

 

 

 

-Boolean-type searching with drop-down menus ("all"=AND, "any"=OR)
-Implied Boolean (+) &
(-) signs
-Double quotes (" ")

 

-Boolean-type sarching with drop-down menus
-Additional drop-down menus
-Implied Boolean signs
-Double quotes (" ")
-Text, title, link, name, URL, & Link to URL searches


-No case sensitivity
-No stop words

 

Northern Light
www.northernlight.com


-Implied Boolean (+) & (-) signs
-Double quotes (" ")
-Boolean operators OR,NOT
-Nesting
-Natural language searches

 -Implied Boolean (+) & (-) signs
-Double quotes (" ")
-Boolean operators OR,NOT
-Nesting
-Searches limited to specific subject categories or document type
-Country & language searches

 -US Government Search (hard-to-find government information)
-Current News Search (free, searchable 2 week news archive)
-Results sorted into custom search folders

Google
www.google.com

 

-Implied Boolean (+) & (-) signs
- Double quotes (" ")
-Stop words

 

-Google does not support advanced search options

 

-Cached page archives
-Uncle Sam searches .gov & .mil sites

 

 

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