Fields & File Types
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| If you want to search for... | Choose... |
| Audio/Music | AllTheWeb AltaVista Dogpile Fazzle FindSounds.com Lycos Music Lycos Multimedia Search Singingfish
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| Date last modified | AllTheWeb Advanced Search AltaVista Advanced Web Search Ask.com Advanced Search Exalead Advanced Search Google Advanced Search HotBot Advanced Search Yahoo Advanced Web Search
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| Domain/Site/URL | AllTheWeb Advanced Search AltaVista Advanced Web Search AOL Advanced Search Ask.com Advanced Search Google Advanced Search Lycos Advanced Search MSN Search Search Builder SearchEdu.com Yahoo Advanced Web Search
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| File Format | AllTheWeb Advanced Web Search AltaVista Advanced Web Search AOL Advanced Search Exalead Advanced Search Yahoo Advanced Web Search
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| Geographic location | Ask.com Advanced Search Exalead Advanced Search HotBot Advanced Search Lycos Advanced Search MSN Search Search Builder Yahoo Advanced Web Search
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| Images | AllTheWeb AltaVista The Amazing Picture Machine Ask.com Images Ditto Dogpile Fazzle Google Image Search IceRocket Ixquick Mamma Picsearch
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| Language | AllTheWeb Advanced Web Search AOL Advanced Search Ask.com Advanced Search Exalead Advanced Search Google Language Tools HotBot Advanced Search iBoogie Advanced Web Search Lycos Advanced Search MSN Search Search Builder Yahoo Advanced Web Search
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| Multimedia & video | All TheWeb AltaVista Dogpile Fazzle IceRocket Search For Video Singingfish Yahoo Video Search
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| Page Title/URL | AOL Advanced Search Fazzle Google Advanced Search Yahoo Advanced Web Search ZapMeta Advanced Web Search
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Search logic
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| If you want to use... | Choose... |
| Boolean operators | AltaVista Advanced Web Search AllTheWeb Advanced Search Dogpile Google [OR only] Ixquick
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Full Boolean logic with parentheses
e.g., behavior and (cats or felines) | AlltheWeb Advanced Search AltaVista Advanced Web Search Exalead Ixquick MSN Search
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| Implied Boolean +/- | Most search engines offer this option |
| Boolean logic using search form terminology | Most advanced search options offer this, including:
AllTheWeb Advanced Search AltaVista Advanced Web Search AOL Advanced Search Ask.com Advanced Search Exalead Google Advanced Search IceRocket Advanced Search MSN Search Search Builder Yahoo Advanced Web Search
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| Proximity searching | Exalead Google [by default] Ixquick
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Search options
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| If you want.. | Choose... |
| Alternative search terms |
SurfWax
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| A user fill-in search form | Many search engines offer this, including:
AlltheWeb Advanced Web Search AltaVista Advanced Web Search AOL Search Advanced Search Ask.com Advanced Search Google Advanced Search IceRocket Advanced Search MSN Search Builder Yahoo Advanced Web Search
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| Search for documents similar to those in existing results | Google
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| Truncation | Exalead Ixquick
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| Your search stated in plain English | Ask.com Brainboost Ixquick MSN Search
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| Translation of pages retrieved as search results, or any text or Web page, to and from selected languages | Babel Fish
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| An exact phrase within quotations | Most search engines offer this option
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| An exact phrase from a template choice | Many search templates offer this. For example: AllTheWeb Advanced Search AltaVista Advanced Web Search Fazzle Google Advanced Search IceRocket Advanced Search
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| Multiple search tools searched simultaneously with duplicate records removed | Chubba Clusty Copernic Don Busca Fazzle Ixquick Mamma MetaCrawler Query Server SurfWax Yooci more...
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Search Results
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| If you want... | Choose... |
| Results based on linking, i.e., number of links from highly rated Web pages | A9 Alexa Web Search AltaVista Ask.com Google Google Web Directory [Many search engines use this technology as part of their results ranking strategy]
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| Results clustered by concept and/or type of site (often laid out as a "horizontal" list of topics in addition to a single vertical list of results) | Accumo Search AllinOne MetaSearch Ask.com Clusty Don Busca Exalead iBoogie Infonetware metaEUREEKA Kartoo KillerInfo Mooter Quintura Search AllinOne MetaSearch Turbo10 Ujiko Vivisimo Yahoo! Mindset
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Option to search on related topics
| AllTheWeb Dogpile Factbites
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Results in graphical/visual format
| Kartoo Mooter Quintura Ujiko Webbrain
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Results with thumbnail images of retrieved sites
| Don Busca Exalead IceRocket
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Queries stored at the site and notification of new results
| Google Alert Karnak TracerLock
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Queries stored by the search service for repeat searches
| Copernic |
| Search results appear as you type | Google Suggest SurfWax LookAhead (RSS feeds)
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Specialty Searches
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| If you want to search... | Choose... |
| The Deep Web (not generally covered by search spiders) | Complete Planet Google Search.Com Turbo10 [Many search engine sites offer deep Web searches. For example, see Ixquick and InfoGrid]
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| Blogs | Ask.com Blogdigger Bloglines BlogPulse Bloogz Clusty Feedster Globe of Blogs Google Blog Search IceRocket Sphere Technorati Yahoo News Search
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Files in FTP sites (text, multimedia, software, etc.)
| Ftpsearchengines.com Oth Net |
| Library materials | WorldCat
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| News (multiple sources searched simultaneously) | AlltheWeb: News AltaVista - News FindNews.org Google News Alerts InfoGrid NewsNow NewsTrove.com Pandia Newsfinder RocketNews SurfWax News Accumulator Topix.net The WorldNews Network
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| News (RSS feeds) | Ask.com Daypop Memigo NewsIsFree
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| Podcasts | Pluggd Podcast.net Podcast Search Service PODZINGER Yahoo Podcasts
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| RSS feeds | Chordata Feed-Directory.com RSSfeeds.com SurfWax LookAhead Syndic8.com
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| Saved Web pages | Furl Spurl.net
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| Scholarly materials, e.g,. books, articles, etc. | Google Book Search Google Scholar Live Search Books Windows Live Academic
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Search trails, e.g., paths taken from search results to selected pages
| Trexy |
| Site analysis | GoLexa
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| Usenet newsgroup postings | Google Groups
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| Web events | FindWebEvents.com
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| Your own customized search engine | Eurekster Swicki Google Custom Search Engine Rollyo
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Reference sources (dictionaries, encyclopedias, e-mail and address lookups, calculators, quotations, news, government info, statistics etc.)
| Reference Collection (U Albany Libraries) |
| Professionally maintained directories | About Academic Info BUBL LINK INFOMINE Librarians' Internet Index Intute The Scout Archives Virtual Learning Resources Center WWW Virtual Library more...
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Directories maintained by volunteers
| JoeAnt Open Directory Project (DMOZ)
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