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Using f.Search

f.Search, it’s simply the easiest way to use the search engines of the Internet.  f.Search sits in your system tray (down by the clock), giving you access to these searches any time you need them. f.Search will automatically use Netscape or Internet Explorer, and load them automatically if neither is running. f.Search needs no setup on your part!

Click on the f.Search icon in the system tray, and a small menu will pop up.  Guide your mouse to the category of search you want, then the search engine you wish to use.  Click on the search engine name, and a dialog will pop into the middle of your screen.  Fill in the appropriate information in the dialog, this will vary from search to search.  For more information on how to use a search engine, consult the reference section of this help file or the help documentation at the search engine’s web site.

When you’ve completed filling in the search dialog, hit enter or the OK button.  Your search request will automatically be sent to your browser.  The search will also show up in the Recent Searches menu, and be stored in your Recent Searches list

The Recent Searches list holds the last 100 searches you sent.  You can edit or view this list by More \ Edit Searches in the Recent Searches menu.

There isn’t much else to the program.  There are only three options in the preferences.  One option chooses what browser f.Search should prefer to use.  The next prefrence is how f.Search should display itself on your computer.  Should it use the taskbar, your browser, or both?  The other preference turns off Dialog Memory.  Dialog Memory is what makes your last search pop up in the dialog when you try a new search.  If you are going to search for sensitive material you would prefer others didn’t know you were looking for, you should turn this off before you search for anything.


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Please write to support@meat.com and we’ll try our best to solve your problem.


Contacting L’Industrie De Meat

L’Industrie De Meat

4880 SW Scholls Ferry RD #25

Portland, OR  97225-1689

USA

email:  support@meat.com

website:  http://www.meat.com/


f.Search Design Philosophy

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Who’s that guy in the about box?

His name is Fukurokuju, and he is one of the shichifukujin, or The Seven Deities of Good Fortune.

“The Shichifukujin--usually identified as Ebisu, Daikokuten, Bishamonten, Benzaiten, Fukurokuju, Jurojin, and Hotei--are traditionally believed to bring good fortune and happiness to people. The seven have long been depicted in painting, sculpture, song, and dance and began to be worshipped as a group several hundred years ago. The practice of making a meguri, or pilgrimage, to shrines and temples of all the Shichifukujin during the New Year season became popular during the Edo period (1603-1868). Shichifukujin Meguri are still popular everywhere in Japan--including the Fukagawa and Kameido districts of Koto-ku.”

“Fukurokuju is a deity of happiness, prosperity, longevity, and wisdom. He is usually depicted with an extremely high-domed bald head and a long white beard (symbolizing great wisdom and age) and sometimes, as in the figure here, carrying a staff and a scroll containing the world's wisdom. In Fukagawa Fukurokuju is enshrined at Shingyo-ji; in Kameido he is enshrined at Tenso Jinja.”

- from http://www.twics.com/~eds/shichifukujin.html, © EDS Inc.

The Fukurokuju drawing in the about box is a hand drawing of a 2 ½ inch statue purchased in a junk shop at the Oregon coast.  He’s one of the many unique characters that sit on top of the main development computer at L’Industrie De Meat.  Among the others, which may get their own computer program someday, are:

A plastic dog squeak toy in the shape of a smiling piece of meat.

A 24” plastic squeeze horror rat.

A gremlin candle holder.

A tiny child size bracelet of a gold turtle from the inside of a Karakara senbei.  ( Like a big Japanese fortune cookie only with a little toy inside instead of a fortune. )

A small beach stone with sentimental value.

A 2 ½” statue of Hotei, another shichifukujin.

A 4” statue of Hotei.

A die cast toy of the Millennium Flacon, from Star Wars, made in 1977.

An attraction potion made by a cute little witch.

A horribly ugly large rubber caterpillar that looks more like a sex toy.

A fabric lizard stuffed with sand.

A hand carved wood hawk from Mexico.

And if you actually read to all the way down to here, thanks for trying f.Search!!!


Disclaimer

© 1997-1998 L’Industrie De Meat, All Rights Reserved.

Other product and company names mentioned herein may be the trademarks of their respective owners.

Search engine documentation contained within is property of their respected owners.  It may describe features that are not present in the f.Search dialog for that search engine.


Alta Vista Search Engine Help

Natural Language queries: (always try this first)

Type a word or phrase or a question (for example, weather Boston or what is the weather in Boston?), then click Search (or press the Enter key). If the information you want from this sort of query isn't on the first couple of pages, try adding a few more specific words.

Requiring/Excluding Words:

Often you will know a word that will be guaranteed to appear in a document for which you are searching. If this is the case, require that the word appear in all of the results by attaching a "+" to the beginning of the word (for example, to find an article on pet care, you might try the query dog cat pet +care). You may also find that when you search on a vague topic, you get a very broad set of results. You can quickly reject results by adding a term that appears often in unwanted articles with a "-" before it (for example, to find a recipe for oatmeal raisin cookies without nuts try oatmeal raisin cookie -nut* -walnut*).

Exact Phrases:

If you know that a certain phrase will appear on the page you are looking for, put the phrase in quotes. (for example, try entering song lyrics such as "you ain't nothing but a hound dog")

Search Syntax: (special functions)

AltaVista doesn't just search text. Here are all of the other ways you can search on the net:

Special Functions for Web Searches

anchor:text

Finds pages that contain the specified word or phrase in the text of a hyperlink. anchor:"Click here to visit AltaVista" would find pages with "Click here to visit AltaVista" as a link.

applet:class

Finds pages that contain a specified Java applet. Use applet:morph to find pages using applets called morph.

domain:domainname

Finds pages within the specified domain. Use domain:de to find pages from Germany, or use domain:org to find pages from organizations.

host:name

Finds pages on a specific computer. The search host:altavista.digital.com would find pages on the AltaVista computer, and host:dilbert.unitedmedia.com would find pages on the computer called dilbert at unitedmedia.com.

image:filename

Finds pages with images having a specific filename. Use image:elvis to find pages with images called elvis.

link:URLtext

Finds pages with a link to a page with the specified URL text. Use link:altavista.digital.com to find all pages linking to AltaVista.

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 host name, path, or filename--the complete URL, in other words.

Special Functions for Usenet Searches

from:username@address

Finds articles posted with the specified e-mail address. For example, use from:president@whitehouse.gov to find presidential postings.

subject:"text"

Finds articles with the specified word or phrase in the Subject field. Use subject:"basketball playoffs" to find postings with "basketball playoffs" in the subject.

newsgroups:groupname

Finds articles posted in the specified newsgroup. Use just part of the group name to match a range of groups, like newsgroups:nl to match all groups from the Netherlands.

summary:text

Finds articles with the specified word or phrase in the Summary field. Use summary:playoffs to find postings with playoffs in the summary field.

keywords:text

Finds articles containing keywords matching the specified word or portion of a word. Use keywords:beta to find postings with beta in the keywords field.

Web/Usenet:

AltaVista allows you to search through "the Web" or "Usenet". By selecting "the Web" you can search through all of the web pages in our index. By selecting "Usenet" you will be searching through all of the articles posted to Usenet (Internet wide discussion groups) in the last two weeks. The Usenet index is updated continuously, so when an article is submitted, it will be indexed within a few minutes. The Web index is updated on a daily basis through the the Add/Remove URL function. The index is completely rebuilt periodically to clear out old links, re-examine all of the sites in our index and find new sites on the web.

Languages:

AltaVista allows you to limit your results to those of a particular language. This is very helpful when you perform a search and find that many of the results are not in your native language.

Refining a query:

If you find that too many results are coming back on your search, you can use Cow9, our refine tool, to narrow your search. Cow9 dynamically sorts your results into different topics allowing you to move your search in the right direction. For more information see the Cow9 help.

Case Sensitivity:

Use only lower case unless you want your search to be case sensitive. If you search for Coffee, you'll get only documents that include that word with just that capitalization. If you search for coffee, you'll get any page with that word.

Using Wildcards:

Use an asterisk (*) to broaden your search. To find any words that start with gold, use gold* to find matches for gold, goldfinch, goldfinger, and golden. Use this if the word you are searching for could have different endings. (for example, don't search for dog, search for dog* if it could be plural)

The Results:

To open results in a separate window, click on the window icon located at the left of each result URL.

Special Characters and Punctuation

AltaVista Search defines a word as any string of letters and digits that is separated by either:

White space, such as spaces, tabs, line ends, or the start or end of a document, or Special characters and punctuation, such as %, $, /, #, and _

AltaVista ignores punctuation except to interpret it as a separator for words. Placing punctuation or special characters between each word, with no spaces between the characters and the words, is also a way to indicate a phrase. For example, consider searching for a telephone number. Entering 1-800-555-1212 is easier than entering "1 800 555 1212", which is an equally acceptable syntax, but is less natural. Hyphenated words, such as CD-ROM, also automatically form a phrase because of the hyphen.

Normally, however, we recommend using double quotes to indicate a phrase because some special characters have additional meaning: In both Simple and Advanced Search, you can use the asterisk (*) as a wildcard indicating that you want to find all words containing a match for the specified pattern of letters. •The + and - characters are operators that help to filter the results of a Simple Search. •The &, |, ~, and ! characters are operators that help to filter the results of an Advanced Search.

Multinational Characters

AltaVista supports exact-match searches for characters in the ISO Latin-1 character set. That is, you can enter a word containing an accent or other diacritical mark, and AltaVista will find only documents with the accented spelling of the word.


Ask Jeeves Search Help

How do I use Ask Jeeves?

After entering your question (in plain English) in the box...Click on this <Picture> to search for an answer to your question. Besides your primary answers, Ask Jeeves will provide additional information using conventional search engine technology. After you type in your question, Ask Jeeves may answer with a series of new questions that can help refine your original question. You choose which questions best fit the one you entered and Ask Jeeves will take you to the Web site that answers the question.

Why should I use Ask Jeeves rather than other search engines?

Ask Jeeves does not merely list the sites which answer your question, but takes you right to the site, eliminating the frustrating search through countless sites which don't help you at all. In other words, you ask a question, and Ask Jeeves tries to answer it. In case Ask Jeeves can't answer your question, it also searches through a number of other search engines.

How can I bookmark or print pages that Ask Jeeves takes me to?

At the top of the page to which Ask Jeeves takes you, you will find two frames. The one in the upper left hand corner presents you with two or three red buttons. Click on the "Expand to full page" button and you will see the entire page without frames. This will allow you to bookmark the site, too. If there are other sites which answer your questions, click the "See Additional Answers" button to see them. Or you can choose to "Ask Jeeves a New Question".

What other features does Ask Jeeves Have?

One feature is "Random Questions". Choose from the given list of categories and click on the Ask Jeeves button. Ask Jeeves will take you to a random question in that category.

Another feature is "Sample Questions". Ask Jeeves gives you a few categories such as Science or Movies. Click on the category to see some choice questions that the Ask Jeeves researchers have selected.

What's with all the cookies?

Ask Jeeves uses Microsoft's Active Server Page technology, which uses cookies to tell what user is accessing a page. This allows Ask Jeeves technology to provide the correct answer to the correct user. That is, if user David asks a question about home improvement and user Sue asks a question about traveling to Mexico, Ask Jeeves relies on the Microsoft technology which uses cookies to deliver the home improvement answer page to user David and the Acapulco page to user Sue, and not the other way around. Ask Jeeves does not use cookies for any other reason, nor store any special marketing information in cookies.

How can I get rid of the frames?

We hope soon to have a no frames option for Ask Jeeves. At the present time, use the "Expand to Full Page" button as explained above to view the site Ask Jeeves takes you to, without frames.

How can I submit my webpage's URL to Ask Jeeves?

We welcome any comments, suggestions or questions via email. We do not guarantee that we will put your URL into the Ask Jeeves database, however, since we only use sites which will answer the type of information that we think users will need and/or want.

What can I do if I search with Ask Jeeves and I still can't find an answer?

If you cannot find the information you are looking for through Ask Jeeves, email us and one of our researchers will try to find the answer for you.


Dog Pile Search Help

The Dogpile search interface takes a single line for a query and processes it so that you will get the maximum benefit from your search. Currently twenty five search engines are supported. They are:

WWW: Yahoo, Lycos' A2Z, Go2.com, Excite Guide Search, WWW Yellow Pages, Thunderstone, What U Seek, Lycos, PlanetSearch, Magellan, WebCrawler, InfoSeek, AltaVista, Excite & HotBot.

Usenet: Reference.com, Dejanews, HotBot News, Altavista and Dejanews' old Database.

FTP: Filez and FTP Search.

News Wires: Yahoo News Headlines, Excite News, Infoseek News Wires.

What is Allowed?

You may use the proximity and Boolean operators AND, OR, NEAR, and NOT to combine words and phrases. NEAR will be substituted with AND for those engines which do not support its use. If you use NEAR the engines which support its use will be searched first. NOT and the following word will be deleted if the engine does not support its use.

OR is not fully supported since not all the search engines included support a mixed use of AND and OR. This is not a limitation for MetaFind however.

Using no connector, AND will be assumed. Thus the search:

“Free and Mac and Software” and “Free Mac Software” are the same.

You may also use quotes and parentheses. However note that not all search engines support their use. For those which do not support their use, they will automatically be removed.

The FTP search engines only take one word as the query (i.e. a file name or part of a file name) Make sure that the first word in your query is the file name you want to find. You may still add other search terms if you also are searching the web or usenet also.

What will Happen when I Press "Fetch"

Arfie searches three search engines at a time. The requests are put out in parallel and are displayed as they come back.

If Arfie does not get at least 10 documents matching your query request it will automatically move to the next three and so on until all are searched or until 10 matches are found.

If Arfie does find 10 or more matches you still can go to the next set of search engines by pressing on the button at the bottom of the page.

Engines have generally been placed in order from the very general index search (where a general search like "usenet culture" will not turn up 30000 pages) to the very specific super-engine (which will find too much if your search is not narrow). This means that you can put in as much or as little detail about what it is you want to find and not be disappointed with too few matches (since Arfie automatically fetches more documents from larger databases if less than ten are found) nor be overwhelmed when looking for information on a general topic (since the index search engines like Yahoo are catagorized into general subject headings).

Attempts have been made to make it easy to follow up on the query sent to each search engine. The query sent to the search engine is printed and (in most cases) is linked to the page generating the results. Also if the search engine found more than the maximum displayable matches (e.g. 10 matches), a link to the next 10 should also be present (where supported).

Please remember that search engines change their format all the time. Thus Arfie is guaranteed NOT to work 100% of the time with 100% of the engines.

If you still do not understand any of this, don't worry. Just try it and see what happens.


EuroSeek Search Help

Query:

Type in the query word or words you want to find information about. EuroSeek uses a simple query syntax as explained below.

Language:

EuroSeek has one interface for almost every European language. In this menu you can choose your preferred or native language.

Limit hits to region:

In this menu you can limit the results to a specific region. EuroSeek will report only those matches originating from the selected region.

Limit to Language:

Like "limit hits to region", this is also a filter. EuroSeek will report documents written in the language specified only. This may be useful if you want to find documents in your native language.

Query Syntax

Just type in your query words. You may use the operators AND and OR for combining words into more complex queries, and you can group queries using parenthesis.

If you want to search for a specific phrase, or a name, you should use quotes (""). Quotes are also good for escaping characters/words that have a special meaning like AND and OR.

The search is always case-insensitive, ie. you will get the same results if you search for 'euroseek', 'EuroSeek' or 'euroSeek', etc. Also, if you specify several words but no combining operator, AND is implied.

Example queries:

Simple query

Query: tennis

Result: Documents containing the word 'tennis'.

Combined query

Query: tennis AND sport

Result: Documents containing both of the words 'tennis' and 'sport'.

Implied AND

Query: tennis sport

Result: Same as above.

Grouped combined query

Query: (tennis OR hockey) AND sport

Result: Documents containing the word 'sport' and any or both of the words 'tennis' and 'hockey'.

Phrase query

Query: "Ludwig Wittgenstein"

Result: Documents containing the name "Ludwig Wittgenstein".


Excite & Magellan Search Help

( this document seems to apply to both Excite and Magellan searches, if you find this to not be the case, let us know. )

What is Excite Search?

Excite's technology offers a unique way to search the Web: by concept. like most search engines, we've programmed our search engine to look for documents containing the exact words you entered into the query box. But Excite goes further and looks for ideas closely linked to the words in your query. This feature broadens your search.

Suppose you enter elderly people financial concerns in the query box. In addition to finding sites containing those exact words, the search engine will find sites mentioning the economic status of retired people and the financial concerns of senior citizens.

Our search engine can figure out that relationships exist between words and concepts -- that the term elderly people is related to senior citizens. It learns about related concepts from the documents themselves, and learns more from each new document it indexes.

What Can I Search?

Excite can search Web sites, news articles from over 300 web-based publications, data on thousands of cities from around the globe or the discussion postings found in Usenet newsgroups.

World Wide Web

Use this option for a targeted search on the broadest possible pool of information. We search the more than 50 million Web sites in our database, looking for matches most closely related to your query.

Excite Web Guide

Use this option for a high-quality, targeted search of the more than 80,000 Web sites identified by Excite's experts. Our editorial team combs the Web daily, examining sites and choosing the best ones. For detailed information about this feature, see the Excite Web Guide section of this handbook.

NewsTracker

Use this option to search over current news articles from over 300 web-based publications. This collection is refreshed multiple times a day and contains articles that are indexed almost as soon as they appear on the sites covered.

City.Net

Use this option to search over four thousand online cities from around the globe. The City.Net collection serves as your business and vacation travel guide.

Usenet Newsgroups (brought to you by Deja News)

Use this option to find out what people are saying about a particular subject in casual conversations on the Net. Usenet is a vast collection of discussion groups (known as newsgroups) on every imaginable topic, from technology stocks to the Beatles.

General Search Tips

1.Search for ideas and concepts instead of just keywords, using more than one word in your search. Excite uses Intelligent Concept Extraction (ICE) to find relationships that exist between words and ideas, so the results of a search will contain words related to the concepts you're searching for.

2.Excite's search results are sorted by document relevance. The results nearest the top will usually be the most closely related to your query.

3.Use Excite's More Like This link. If you find that one of the many results returned better describes what you are searching for, click on the words "More Like This" next to the URL. Our search engine will then use that document as an example in a new search, to find more sites similar to the one you liked.

4.Use more descriptive, specific words as opposed to general ones. For example, a search for "Lamborghini" will return much more specific results than a search for "sports cars."

5.Use the View by Web site function. Excite's list of search results may present several pages from the same site. When you click on the View by Web site button, your list will compress to show the names of the sites and the relevant documents within them.

6.Try an Advanced Search. Use the "+" (plus) sign for words that your results MUST contain. Or use the "-" (minus) sign in your query to tell the search engine that your results should NOT contain a certain word. When using these options, do not leave any space between the sign and the word.

7.Choose where you want to search by using Excite's Power Search Form where you can select the type of information you are interested in searching on. This allows you to search the World Wide Web, Excite Web Guide, NewsTracker, City.Net, Excite UK, Excite Germany, Excite Sweden, Excite France, and Usenet Newsgroups. The Power Search Form also enables you to enter an advanced search without requiring you to use advanced query language. Give it a try!

8.Windows 95 and Windows NT users can save time by bringing Excite's search engine to their fingertips. Just download and install Excite Direct on your Netscape Navigator or Internet Explorer browser. It's easy. Excite Direct puts a search box and button on your browser's toolbar so you can search without having to return to Excite's home page. Excite's power and the Web's comprehensiveness (all 50-plus million URLs) are accessible from Excite Direct's search box.

9.Use all of Excite's power to find exactly what you're looking for. You can conduct the most comprehensive search on the Web through Excite Search, find a focused list of sites through Excite Web Guide, and use My Excite Channel to deliver personalized information right to your desktop. But Excite offers even more. ExciteSeeing Tours guide you through the Web, leading you to information on a multitude of topics. City.Net pinpoints destinations and resources the world over. And Excite Reference helps you track down the people, businesses, and e-mail addresses you need. No matter what you're looking for on the Web, Excite will find it.

Advanced Search Methods

Searching for phrases (words next to each other)

When searching for a phrase such as better business bureau or san francisco 49ers, where you want the words in that order, just enclose the phrase in quotes. A search on san francisico 49ers returns all pages with any or all of those words, in any order somewhere on the page (with pages containing all the words ranked higher of course). But a search on "san francisco 49ers" just finds pages with that exact phrase on the page.

Using plus (+) and minus (-) signs

These signs tell our search engine which terms must (+) and must not (-) be present in the returned documents. When using these options, do not leave any space between the sign and the word.

plus (+)

If you put a plus sign directly in front of a word, all the documents Excite retrieves will contain that word. So if you search for +billiards +rules, you'll be sure to get the rules of the game. Remember, you must mark each word appropriately to have these tools work. For instance, if you type billiards +rules, all of the documents returned will have "rules" in the text, but not necessarily billiards.

Minus (-)

If you put a minus sign directly in front of a word, Excite will NOT retrieve documents containing that word. So if you search for +billiards -equipment -supplies, you'll be spared the billiards-related documents that emphasize equipment and supplies.

Using Boolean Operators

Boolean operators tell Excite's concept-based search mechanism to turn off and allow you to search for documents that contain exactly the words you are looking for. Boolean operators include AND, AND NOT, OR, and parentheses. These operators must appear in ALL CAPS and with a space on each side in order to work.

AND

Documents found must contain all words joined by the AND operator. For example, to find documents that contain the words "wizard," "oz," and "movie," enter: wizard AND oz AND movie

OR

Documents found must contain at least one of the words joined by OR. For example, to find documents that contain the word "cat" or the word "kitten," enter: cat OR kitten

AND NOT

Documents found cannot contain the word that follows the term "AND NOT." For example, to find documents that contain the word "pets" but not the word "dogs," enter: pets AND NOT dogs

( )

parentheses are used to group portions of Boolean queries together for more complicated queries. For example, to find documents that contain the word "fruit" and either the word "banana" or the word "apple," enter: fruit AND (banana OR apple)

Understanding Your Search Results

World Wide Web

Excite lists 10 search results at a time, with the most relevant documents first. For each site you'll see the title and URL, and a brief summary of its contents. Click on the title to go to a site. As with any of our results listings, you'll see the clickable option More Like This.

Excite Web Guide

We list 10 search results at a time, again in decreasing order of relevance. For each site you'll see the title and URL, the topics under which it is categorized in our Web Guide section, and the review itself.

Usenet Newsgroups

Excite lists up to 20 results of Usenet Newsgroup searches at a time in decreasing order of relevance. You'll see the subject of the message, the author of the message, the Usenet group it came from, and the date. You can click on the subject of the message to get the entire text. You can also click on the name of the newsgroup itself to see what other messages are posted.

Note: If you're not set up to view newsgroup postings, you won't be able to access any newsgroup through Excite. If you're unable to access newsgroup postings, contact your service provider.

Relevance Rating

Excite lists 10 search results at a time in decreasing order of relevance. The percentage sign to the left of each result is the relevance rating. The closer the rating is to 100%, the more confident Excite is that the document will fit your needs. The relevance ratings are automatically generated by our search engine, which compares the information in the site against the information in your query. Click here for more info on relevance ratings.

View by Web Site

By default, your search results are sorted by relevance. Our list of search results may, at times, offer several pages from the same site as separate items. We want you to be able to sort these pages by site. When you click on View by Web Site, your list will be compressed to show the names of the URLs and the relevant hits within them.

Suppose you queried for technology stocks. When Excite searches, it may find sites all around the Web that discuss technology stocks. By clicking View by Web Site, you can quickly see which sites contain the most web pages from the top 60 results, and then just go to the site with the most information

More Like This

Did our search engine find a document that discusses exactly what you hoped to find in your search? If so, go back to the list of search results and find the URL and title of that particular site. Click on the link More Like This, next to the title. We'll immediately use that document as an example in a new search, one that will find more sites similar to the one you liked.

Browser Errors

Once in a while you'll find that you can't access a particular site. Your browser may show one of the following error messages:

DNS Lookup Failed

DNS (domain name server) is a program that exists wherever you get your Internet access. It turns the Web site address that most users see (www.excite.com for example) into a corresponding numerical address that can be read by a computer. A DNS Lookup Failed message indicates that the browser could not contact your domain name server, or that the domain name server was not aware of the site. Make sure the domain name is not misspelled.

File Not Found

The page may no longer exist, or it may have moved to another address.

Server Error or Server Busy Error

The computer you're trying to contact may be offline, may have crashed, or may be busy. You might want to try again later.


HotBot Search Help

Getting Started

We've highlighted a few tips to help you search more accurately on HotBot. For more information, visit our list of Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ).

HotBot takes the headache out of searching, with an interface that allows novice users to execute complex queries with a few simple clicks. See for yourself why HotBot was the only search engine to receive both the PC Magazine Editor's Choice award and the PC Computing MVP Finalist distinction.

Simple searches

Getting started is pretty straightforward: Type in search terms or keywords relating to your query, and hit the Search button.

HotBot then searches the full text of the more than 50 million documents in its database, finds all documents that fit your criteria, sorts them according to their relevance, and returns a list of documents in the form of abstracts and hyperlinks.

HotBot's pulldown menus and buttons let you modify or refine your search. Use these tools to narrow your search by placing more conditions on the query. The more you tell HotBot about what you're looking for, the more accurate your results will be.

The first pull-down menu contains these basic options to narrow your search:

All the words

Selecting all the words tells HotBot to search for pages that contain every one of the words that you typed in. The result of this type of search will contain at least one instance of each word in every page returned, but not necessarily in the order that you typed them. If you are attempting to locate a page that contains a particular phrase, select the exact phrase. Using all the words is similar to a Boolean AND search, but Boolean notation will not work with this type of search. You can, however, use + or - to narrow your search.

Any of the words

Selecting any of the words tells HotBot to find pages that contain one or more of the words or phrases that you typed in. Documents that contain the most matches are placed at the top of the results page. Using any of the words is similar to a Boolean OR search, and you can use Boolean operators. This type of search will result in a larger number of results than selecting all the words.

The exact phrase

Selecting the exact phrase tells HotBot to look for documents that contain the words you typed in the exact order that you entered them. In other words, while submitting gather ye rosebuds under all the words will tell HotBot to search for each of the three words at any place on the same page, submitting gather ye rosebuds under the exact phrase will only return pages with those three words in sequence.

Very common internet words (e.g. "of", "the", "web", "HTML", "cgi", "text", "computer") and special characters (& , - : /) with the execption of the period are currently ignored for all search types, including phrase searches. If a stopword is included in a phrase search, it will wildcard that word finding the correct sequence of words entered but allowing any word to replace the stopword. If a stopword is entered by itself in the search field, it will return no matches. This is a good way to test words to see if they are interfering with your query.

The person

Selecting the person tells HotBot to look for near matches to your search term. For example, typing "Zeppo Marx" and selecting the person will tell HotBot to search for "Zeppo Marx" "Mr. Zeppo Marx" "Marx Zeppo"

Links to this URL

Ever wondered how many people have linked to your Web pages? HotBot can tell you! Try searching for http://www.hotbot.com/ and you'll find all of the people who are linking to HotBot. You can do the same for any page on the Web.

The Boolean expression

This is the power searcher's friend. This selection allows you to enter "advanced" searches directly as text, instead of using our Modify panel. See Boolean Searching in the Advanced Searching section of the Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) list for more info.

When you're ready to explore some of HotBot's more powerful search features, take a look at the comprehensive list of Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ).

Smarter searching

Ask better questions, and you can dramatically improve your search results.

1. Use at least two or three search terms. By using more keywords to narrow your search, you can locate documents that fit your information needs more precisely.

Search terms	# of matches

Jobs 	681,718

Jobs consulting 	51,452

Jobs consulting engineering 	21,770

Jobs consulting engineering civil 	6,568

Adding query terms is the easiest way to focus your search quickly - you can add terms directly to the text box on the results page. When using the default all the words setting, adding search terms narrows your results.

2. Be specific. Try to pick words that are unique to the topic you're investigating. If you're looking for information about the Virginia state motto, enter all three words in your search. If you enter Virginia motto, HotBot may give you p ages that discuss mottos, but not the state motto.

3. Using all the words vs. any of the words. By default, HotBot displays documents containing all the words in your search query (Note: This is the equivalent of a Boolean AND search). By setting the main search pulldown menu to < tt>any of the words, you'll find documents that contain as few as one of your requested words (a Boolean OR search). This will increase the number of documents that are returned. HotBot's relevance ranking will automatically favor documents th at contain the greatest number of your search words.

4. Use exact phrases. You can narrow your search by requesting that your search terms appear in order as an exact phrase. Select the exact phrase from the search pulldown menu, or simply enclose your phrase in double quotes (" "). For example, if you are looking for database administrators, search for these words as a phrase. This produces one-fifteenth as many matches. You can also mix phrases with single search terms in the search box, for example: "auto parts" BMW.

5. Give SuperSearch a spin. HotBot's SuperSearch is a powerful, but easy-to-understand, extension of the regular HotBot search interface. SuperSearch allows you to enter additional search terms, specify additional media types, and much more.


InfoSeek Search Help

1.Click in the search box, and type a few words.

Both Proper Names and full questions are understood by Infoseek.

For example, typing growing orchids indoors will find sites about caring for orchids.

Other Tips:

Capitalize names of people and places.

If you capitalize adjacent names, Infoseek treats the words as a single name or title. For example, type: Rock Hudson.

If you don't capitalize a name or title, it will be treated like any other group of words. You will find sites about rock climbing, rock music and the Hudson River along with sites about the movie actor.

Use commas (,) to separate names and titles.

To search for several names or titles, use commas to separate them. To find sites that mention both Steve Jobs and Bill Gates, type: Steve Jobs, Bill Gates

If a comma is not used between names, it will be treated as one long single name. A search for Steve Jobs Bill Gates will not find information about either man.

Use double quotation marks (") around words or hyphens (-) between words that must appear next to each other.

Type  "stupid pet tricks"     or     stupid-pet-tricks

to find sites with those words adjacent to each other. Otherwise, Infoseek will find sites that include the word stupid, the word pet, and the word tricks. (When using hyphens, be sure that you leave no spaces between the words.) Remember, double quotes make the search case-sensitive; hyphens (-) do not.

Use a plus sign (+) in front of a word that must appear.

To require a word, and increase the precision of your search, type

city guides +San Francisco

Do not leave a space between the plus sign and the word that must appear.

Use a pipe (|) to search a certain set of results only.

This command is used to narrow search results by searching for one word or phrase, and then within that set of results searching for another word or phrase.

dogs | Dalmatians

Search for a specific link or URL.

To search for a page containing a specific link or URL, use link: or url:. For example, type

link:www.infoseek.com

     or

url:http://www.infoseek.com

to see how many external links point to Infoseek. Note that unlike other search engines, Infoseek provides an exact count of matches, not approximations.

Search for a specific site and its related pages.

The site: field search examines the "site" part of the URL only. The query

site:sun.com

will find such sites as java.sun.com, www.sun.com and playground.sun.com, but won't match any site that ends in sun.co.uk. This search can use the field search to bring up all pages at a particular Web site.

For more information on searching, see Quick Reference to Syntax.

2.Select what set of information you want to search. Use the buttons next the text entry box to search other sets of information besides Web pages:

News - Get news stories from the past month. The News collection contains headlines, world news, and news on business, politics, entertainment and sports. The collection is updated daily.

Usenet - Usenet newsgroups give you the scoop on what people are saying on the Internet. Newsgroups are forums for discussion in which people "talk" by posting articles to the newsgroup. Whatever your interest, there's a Usenet newsgroup discussion about it.

Companies - Access detailed information on over 45,000 leading public and private companies in the U.S. -- including stock prices, SEC data and more.

If you're not sure which choice to make, leave the choice box set to the Web (which is the default) for a collection that captures most of the Web.

3.Click the "seek" button, or press the Return or the Enter key.

Infoseek will perform a search and display the results. The sites that most closely match the query are listed first.

Down the left hand side of the results page, you might find "Best Bets", "Related Topics", and "Related News". The Best Bets give you information about companies that are relevant to your query, links to relevant homepages, and quick links to information that you're looking for.

Related Topics are areas in the Infoseek directory that are relevant to what your searched for. These topics can be browsed by clicking on any of them.

Related News appears in response to your query. Whatever you're looking for, if it's in the news, Infoseek will find the story for you.

4.Narrow down your search results

At the bottom of the search results page there is a search box with two choices.

New Search - If the results were not what you were looking for, then do an entirely new search using different words.

Search These Results - If there are just too many results, then refine the search. Add more descriptive terms in the search box and Infoseek will search again within the group of results you received for your previous query. This narrowing process helps to reduce the number of results quite a bit.

5.The most relevant matches appear first.

Infoseek sorts search results based on how well each document satisfies the query.

The following factors influence which items are considered more relevant:

the query terms (words or phrases) are found in the title or near the start of the document

the document contains more of the query terms

the document contains query terms that have a high weight (words that are relatively uncommon in the database will have a high weight)


Northern Light Search Help

To increase the precision of your search results, Northern Light requires most of the words in your search to be present in the result documents.   To gain more control over your results, please read through the rest of these hints.

Use many words in your search.   The more words you give us, the more on target your results will be.  Examples:

ski resorts Vermont rather than skiing

ergonomic workstation mouse keyboard rather than ergonomics

Use or to retrieve documents that include any of the search words (rather than most), or use not to indicate a word that must not appear in the documents. (Please Note: Northern Light does not currently support full boolean expressions, though we will in the future).  Examples:

encryption or cryptography

dolphins not NFL

Use quotes around specific phrases to focus your search on occurrences of the actual phrase.  Examples:

recipes for "chocolate cake"

"General Dynamics"

To take maximum control of your search, use a + (plus) to indicate words that must be present in the documents and a - (minus) for those that must not be present. (Please Note:   There should be a space before the plus/minus but no space between the plus/minus and the word to which the plus/minus applies). Examples:

+hiking   -hitchhiking

+dolphins   -NFL

+recipes for   +"chocolate cake"   -nuts

Northern Light Search gives you a field in which to type your query.   When you finish typing, you hit the "search" button to the right of the query field, and Northern Light returns your results.


SavvySearch Help

Query Options

Keywords

Enter keywords related to your information need in the box labeled Query. This exact query is forwarded to the search engines queried by SavvySearch. Small words (i.e., the, it, for, etc.) are typically ignored, but you can use numbers and most symbols. There is no need to insert AND & OR between words as this is done automatically, depending upon your selection of all query terms, as a phrase, or any query term. When formulating your query, keep in mind that one or two common words will tend to return a lot of more general documents, while using specific words typically returns fewer results.

Currently, there is no option for case sensitivity or specification of words you specifically do not want in your results.

Keyword Operator

The keyword operator is applied to your query before it is submitted to the multiple search engines. The all query terms operator specifies that you would like the results to contain every word in your query; the any query term operator specifies that you would like to see documents containing any of the query terms. The any query term selection will typically retrieve many more results than all query terms, so avoid using it unless your query terms are very specific. The all query terms, as a phrase operator is used to request results in which the query terms appear next to (or nearby) each other. Use this to search for phrases and names. Note that only a few of the search engines queried by SavvySearch implement adjacency or phrase searching, all query terms is used in cases where all query terms, as a phrase is not supported. There is currently no way to combine these operators in a single query.

Number of Hits

This option specifies the number of results you would like presented from each search engine. Note that this is not a guarantee of how many results you will get from each because some queries don't retrieve anything, and some search engines limit the maximum number of results they're willing to return.

Integrate Results

When selected, duplicate results are combined, and results are not separated by search engine. While this format is easier to interpret, the tradeoff is that you must wait until all search engines report (up to 45 seconds) before seeing any results.

Display Options

Use the display options to tell SavvySearch how much information you would like to see in the results. When brief format is selected, a typical result contains a title and hypertext link to the result item, the search engine that returned it, and links to all of the search engines used in your search.

When the Normal option is selected, most of the available information is displayed. This includes any information about the 'Size', 'Length', 'Score', 'Date',, 'Type', author and location. Longer fields include descriptive information regarding the accompanying link. This information is been labeled 'Abstract', 'Description', 'Excerpt', and 'Keywords', in hopes of loosely reflecting field names returned by the search engines. Excerpt and description generally indicate an section of the linked document (usually the first 10 lines, or so). Like the short fields, these are not always present, and when they are do not necessarily reflect the exact same quality across all the search engines. Note that not every search engine provides each and every field, nor do they always have the exact same meaning. For example, one search engine may return size: 16K, while another returns size: 16384 bytes, and yet another could return size: 4 pages. Location refers to a newsgroup in the context of Usenet news article, and refers to an institution in the context of a technical report.

The verbose display options adds fields that didn't seem to fit into either of the above categories, or haven't been classified yet in addition to a textual quote of the result's URL. This is useful if you intend to email your results somewhere. Timing and other search engine statistics are also included in the verbose display.

Search Results

Search plan

When you submit your query, the fitness of each target search engine is ranked. Information from past searches is used to make an educated guess as to which search engines will perform best with your query specifically. These rankings are further adjusted using information about the current turn-around time of each search engine. If a search engine is excessively slow or broken (or there is a problem with the SavvySearch interface to that particular search engine), it will receive a much lower rank. The search plan displays the ranked search engines in order, with the most appropriate and fastest ones toward the left (or top). The number of search engines simultaneously queried, or concurrency value, is dependent on our local load and internet conditions. It is almost always 2, 3, 4, or 5 search engines.

Users often find what they want in the first step. If you don't find anything useful you can continue querying more search engines by selecting any other step. If you're not familiar with the different search engines, simply continue with the next step.


How to use Yahoo! Search

If you know exactly what you're looking for or even have a general idea, try using Yahoo! search. Specify a keyword or set of keywords, and Yahoo! will search its entire database to find listings that match the keywords you provide.

After you have specified keyword(s) inside the query box and clicked on the search button, Yahoo will search through the four areas of its database for keyword matches. The four areas are:

Yahoo! Categories

Yahoo! Web Sites

Yahoo!'s Net Events & Chat

Most Recent News Articles.

The first page returned to you will be a list of matching Yahoo Categories followed by a list of matching Yahoo Sites. If no matching Yahoo Categories and Sites are found, Yahoo will automatically perform a Web-wide, full-text document search using the Alta Vista search engine.

You are able to access a list of matching News Articles and Net Events by clicking on the links in the menu bar at the top of the pages.

If you want to further customize your search, you have two options at your disposal:

1.go to the search options page and follow the instructions, or

2.specify options along with the keywords inside the query box using our advanced search syntax.

How Yahoo! Search Works

After you have specified keyword(s) inside the query box and clicked on the search button, Yahoo (unless otherwise specified) will search through the four areas of its database for keyword matches. The four areas are:

Yahoo! Categories

Yahoo! Web Sites

Yahoo!'s Net Events & Chat

Most Recent News Articles.

Yahoo! first finds all the keyword matches and then sorts the results according to relevancy within each specific area. Yahoo! ranks results in the following manner:

Multiple Keyword Matches: Documents matching more of the keywords will have a higher rank than those matching less.

Document Section Weighting: Documents matching words found in the Title are ranked higher than those found in its Body or URL.

Generality of Category: Categories matching higher up in the Yahoo tree hierarchy (i.e.- more general categories) are ranked higher than those deeper in the hierarchy (i.e. - more narrowly focused categories)

Tips for Better Searching

Use Double Quotes Around Words that are Part of a Phrase

example: "great barrier reef"

Specify Words that Must Appear in the Results

Attach a + in front words that must appear in result documents.

example: sting +police

Specify Words that Should Not Appear in the Results

Attach a - in front of words that must not appear in result documents.

example: python -monty


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