Search Tips

• Searches are case insensitive
• Our databases are organized into various categories to give you more efficient and accurate searches.
• You must select the database you wish to search. If you don't, the uppermost database on the list will be searched
• You can also select the Combined Engines database to search several of the Net's top search engines at once. The results are combined and graded for you in order of relevance.
• Specialized searches may be conducted by using the following syntax:

  text:text
  Finds pages that contain the specified text in any part of the page other than an image tag, link, or URL. The search text:cow9 would find all pages with the term cow9 in them.

  title:text
  Finds pages that contain the specified word or phrase in the page title (which appears in the title bar of most browsers). The search title:Elvis would find pages with Elvis in the title.

  url:text
  Finds pages with a specific word or phrase in the URL. Use url:altavista to find all pages on all servers that have the word altavista in the complete URL (i.e. host name, path, and filename.)