SEARCH THE WWW

Home Simple tips for searching: Use quotation marks around words that are part of a phrase. (all) + in front words that must appear in result documents.(all) - in front of words that must not appear in result documents (all) ( ) around words to force OR search (alltheaweb - no nesting) Use of Boolean operators : AND (excite, northern light) OR  (excite, northern light) AND NOT  (excite) NOT (northern light) ( ) (excite, northern light -groups search terms, can be nested) Use of Wildcards: * replaces any number of characters % replaces a single character (northern light only) Field Searching: TEXT: (northern light) URL: (northern light) TITLE: (northern light, yahoo!) SORT:date (northern light) SITE: (google - search single domain) Natural Languague search supported by: Northern Light

These are the WWW search engines I use most frequently. I find they give good results and are usually very quick. As a reminder as to which engines work with which commands, I have put methods of limiting searches on the right of this page. Yahoo! | Spark | Excite | Northern Light Google | All the Web | Eureka Metasearch YAHOO!  Advanced Search All of Yahoo! UK only Ireland only SPARK SEARCH  Options EXCITE UK sites Whole web Excite channels News Search NORTHERN LIGHT All subjects  Arts Business & Investing Computing & Internet Contemporary life  Education Entertainment Gov't, Law & Politics Health & Medicine Humanities Products & Services Reference Science & Mathematics Social sciences Sports & Recreation Technology  Travel GOOGLE Advanced Search ALL THE WEB all of the words any of the words the exact phrase Advanced Search EUREKA METASEARCH