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Links:
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Alta
Vista Simple Search
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Home page
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www.altavista.com
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Will search in…
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www
mailinglists
Ask Jeeves' directory
RealNames
Looksmart's
directory
GoTo
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Default search
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OR (unless Alta Vista interprets the query as a phrase)
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Case sensitive
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Yes
Lower case queries match both upper and lower case
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Natural language queries
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Yes
Answers form Ask Jeeves
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Spell check
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English
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Translates pages into another language
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Yes
cp. Babelfish.
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SYNTAX
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Alta
Vista Simple Search
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Find pages that have one or more of these words
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dog cat
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Find pages that contain all these words
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+dog +cat (only in simple search)
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Find pages that contain the first, but not the last, word
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dog -cat (only in simple search)
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Find pages that contain the following exact phrase
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"raining cats and dogs"
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
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Find pages that contain these words in near proximity of
each other
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No
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Find pages that contain words that starts with the following
letters
(joker-signs, truncation, wildcard)
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dog*
finds "dog", "dogs", "doghouse" etc.
(The stem must have at least three letters.)
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Nesting (Use of parentheses)
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No
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FIELD SEARCH
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Alta
Vista Simple Search
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Find pages that have the following http-address (or parts
of address)
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url:aviana
or (if you are looking for a specific computer)
host:aviana.com
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Find pages under the following domain
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domain:com (only top level domains or country letter code)
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Find pages that contain images with names that contains
the following word
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image:lassie.gif
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Find pages that contain links to the following address
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link:www.aviana.com
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Find pages that contain the follwing word in the title
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title:dog
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Find pages that contain the following text anywhere in the
HTML-code
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No
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Find pages written in a particular language
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Use advanced
menu.
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Find pages made in the following time period
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Use advanced
menu.
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FIELD SEARCH USENET NEWSGROUPS
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Alta
Vista Simple Search
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Find this newsgroup
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No
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Find this text in the subject field of newsgroup messages
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No
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Find messages that are written by the following
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No
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Find messages that are dated…
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No
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More information on advanced searching
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Alta
Vista simple search
UC
Berkeley tutorial
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