Alta Vista Simple Search Q-card

Links:

Alta Vista Simple Search

Home page

www.altavista.com

 Will search in…

www
mailinglists
Ask Jeeves' directory
RealNames
Looksmart's directory
GoTo

Default search

OR (unless Alta Vista interprets the query as a phrase)

Case sensitive

Yes
Lower case queries match both upper and lower case

Natural language queries

Yes
Answers form Ask Jeeves

Spell check

English

Translates pages into another language

Yes
cp. Babelfish.

 SYNTAX

Alta Vista Simple Search

Find pages that have one or more of these words

dog cat

Find pages that contain all these words

+dog +cat (only in simple search)

Find pages that contain the first, but not the last, word

dog -cat  (only in simple search)

Find pages that contain the following exact phrase

Alta Vista has automatic phrase detection: a large set of commonly used phrases that will be interpreted as such even if you do not use " …"

1-800-555-1212 Dashes link numbers together as a phrase

Find pages that contain these words in near proximity of each other

No

(joker-signs, truncation, wildcard)

dog* 
finds "dog", "dogs", "doghouse" etc.

(The stem must have at least three letters.)

Nesting (Use of parentheses)

No

 FIELD SEARCH

Alta Vista Simple Search

Find pages that have the following http-address (or parts of address)

or (if you are looking for a specific computer)
host:aviana.com

Find pages under the following domain

domain:com (only top level domains or country letter code)

Find pages that contain images with names that contains the following word

image:lassie.gif

Find pages that contain links to the following address

link:www.aviana.com

Find pages that contain the follwing word in the title

title:dog

Find pages that contain the following text anywhere in the HTML-code

 No

Find pages written in a particular language

Use advanced menu.

Find pages made in the following time period

 Use advanced menu.

FIELD SEARCH USENET NEWSGROUPS

Alta Vista Simple Search

Find this newsgroup

No

Find this text in the subject field of newsgroup messages

No

Find messages that are written by the following

No

Find messages that are dated…

No

More information on advanced searching

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