SimpleFind

Version 2.0

© 2000  Antony Pranata

ADC-Soft (http://www.adcsoft.com)

Introduction

What Is SimpleFind?

Search Web Pages Using SimpleFind

Tools Menu

Preferences

FAQ

Frequently Asked Questions


SimpleFind
What Is SimpleFind?

SimpleFind - Find information on the Internet using top search engines with one click.

SimpleFind is a free program that allows you to search information on the Internet using top search engines.  You can search Web pages, e-mail address, news, MP3, encyclopedia, shareware, or computer/technology.  All you have to do is enter the query and click a button.

SimpleFind supports more than 20 top search engines, including AltaVista, Excite, Go, Lycos, Yahoo!, BigFoot, C|Net, ZDNet, and more.

You can save your search results in SimpleFind format as well as HTML files. You can also sort the results based on score, search engines, URL, or title.

SimpleFind is a FREEWARE program. This means that you may use it free of charge. You may also distribute it without any cost, provided it is not changed in anyway.

However, since this program is free, please visit the sponsors found at the top of the window. By visiting them, you will make sure that this program is kept free.


Search Web Pages Using SimpleFind

To search Web pages using SimpleFind, simply follows this steps:

•	Run SimpleFind by clicking Start | Programs | SimpleFind | SimpleFind

•	Enter one or more keywords at the Query edit box.

•	Select one category, the default category is Web.

•	Press <Enter> key or click Find button.

•	The result will be displayed at bottom of Query edit box.

•	Select Tools | Sort by Score, Tools | Sort by Engine, Tools | Sort by URL, or Tools | Sort by Title to change the sorting method.


Preferences Menu
Preferences

There are three tabs in the Preferences dialog box.

Search engines tab

In Search engines tab, you can select search engines when you want to submit your query to.

Proxy server

You should set the proxy server if your ISP support it. You should also set it when you are connecting through a LAN.

Advanced

In Advanced tab, you can change the value of title and description weight. They are use by SimpleFind to determine the score of a result. In most cases, you do not need to change this value.

In this tab, you can also select the number of result pages of each search engines. Most search engines will return 10 results each page. Therefore, if you change number of result pages to 2, SimpleFind will return about 20 results of each search engine. Note that this options will only work on web searching.


Frequently Asked Questions

How much the price of SimpleFind?

SimpleFind is completely FREE. It means that you do not need to pay anything the author. Therefore, please visit the sponsors found at the top of the window while SimpleFind searching your query. This is to ensure that SimpleFind will always free.

Does SimpleFind support AND, OR, and NOT operator?

The short answer is yes.

The default operator of SimpleFind is OR. For example, if you enter the query:

“internet book”

SimpleFind will search all Web pages that contain “internet” OR “book”. However, the pages which contain “internet” AND “book” will be displayed first.

If you want to use AND operator, please add “+” the beginning of each word. For example, if you enter the query:

“+internet +book”

SimpleFind will search all Web pages that contain “internet” AND “book”.

If you want to exclude a certain word, please add “-“. For example, if you enter the query:

“-internet +book”

SimpleFind will search all Web pages that contain “book” but not “internet”.

What information should I enter to search an e-mail address?

The required information is last name or surname of the people you want to search. For example, if you enter the query

“pranata”

SimpleFind will search people who have surname pranata.

If you enter the query

“antony pranata”

or

“pranata, antony”

SimpleFind will search people who have first name antony and last name pranata.