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Q-CARDS SYNTAX

HotBot Q-card

Open HotBot search page in separate frame or in separate window.

Links to advanced searching

 

Hotbot

Home page

www.hotbot.com

 Will search in…

www
mailinglists
DirectHit
GoTo

Default search

AND

Case sensitive

Only in searches for persons and "interesting case" (e.g. mixed case such as NeXt)

Natural language queries

Partly
Select "all the words" from the menu

Spell check

 No

Translates pages into another language

 No

 SYNTAX

Hotbot

Find pages that have one or more of these words

dog OR cat 
or 
dog | cat 

Set menu to "Boolean phrase" or use menu selecting "any of the words"

Find pages that contain all these words

+dog +cat 
or 
dog AND cat 
or 
dog & cat
 

Set menu to "Boolean phrase" or use menu selecting "all of the words"

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

dog NOT cat 
or
dog -cat 
or
dog ! cat 

Set menu to "Boolean phrase" or use menu

Find pages that contain the following exact phrase

"raining cats and dogs" 

Set menu to "Boolean phrase" or use menu

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

 No

Find pages that contain words that starts with the following letters

(joker-signs, truncation, wildcard)

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

or 

d?g (for one and only one letter) 
finds "dig", "dog", "dug"

 Use word stemming under "Supersearch"

Nesting (Use of parentheses)

Kennedy AND (Robert OR John)

finds all pages that contains the words Kennedy and Robert and all pages that contain the words Kennedy and John

 FIELD SEARCH

Hotbot

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

Domainwww.pandia:com 

Or use domain under "Supersearch"

Find pages under the following domain

domain:com 

Or use domain under "Supersearch"

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

 +feature:image

or use menu

Find pages that contain links to the following address

Linkdomain:pandia.com

Restricts searches to pages containing links to this domain (not complete address)

Find pages that contain the follwing word in the title

title:dog

or use menu

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

 No

Find pages written in a particular language

 No

Find pages made in the following time period

After:[day]/[month]/[year] 
or
Before:[day]/[month]/[year] 

Or use menu

FIELD SEARCH USENET NEWSGROUPS

Hotbot

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

Hotbot advanced search features 



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