Search

Use the forms below to search for documents on the Internet containing specific words or combinations of words. The text search engines will display a list of matching documents, with better matches shown first. Each list item is a link to a matching document; if the document has a title it will be shown, otherwise only the document's file name is displayed. A brief explanation of usual search engine query language is available, along with examples.

Other popular online WWW Commercial Search Engines:

     Alta Vista
     Excite
     Google
     InfoSeek
     Lycos
     WebCrawler
     Yahoo

Query Language

The text search engine allows queries to be formed from arbitrary Boolean expressions containing the keywords AND, OR, and NOT, and grouped with parentheses. For example:

information retrieval

finds documents containing 'information' or 'retrieval'

information or retrieval

same as above

information and retrieval

finds documents containing both 'information' and 'retrieval'

information not retrieval

finds documents containing 'information' but not 'retrieval'

(information not retrieval) and WAIS

finds documents containing 'WAIS', plus 'information' but not 'retrieval'

web*

finds documents containing words starting with 'web'

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