Search Engine

Description

Search Tips

Search Tips

Google searches are fast, and tend to give the most relevant and high-quality near the top of the results list. 

It won numerous awards in Search Engine Watch and has one of the best search engines for images, and a well organised newsgroup category.

Try a Google search here:

Supports:
+ in front of the word: To include common (stop) words in search.
- in front of the term: To exclude words in search.
" ": Phrase searching
OR operator
(AND operator is defaulted)
Domain Restriction, e.g. admission site:www.np.edu.sg

Does not support:
Wildcards (*) or truncations
Case sensitivity

Search Tips

AltaVista is one of the oldest crawler-based search engines on the Web. It has a large index of web pages and a wide range of power searching commands: it allows searches for exact phrases, search documents that contain a link to a particular URL, use wildcards and employ case sensitivity. It also offers search for multimedia elements.

Try an AltaVista search here:

Supports:
Boolean operators: AND, OR, AND NOT, NEAR
(AND operator is defaulted)
" ": Phrase searching
* as wildcard
( ): Parenthesis to group boolean expressions
Domain, Host, Image, Link, URL Restrictions, e.g. courses link:www.np.edu.sg

Does not support:
Punctuation marks between words
Case sensitivity
AND operator is defaulted

Search Tips

AllTheWeb.com (also known as FAST Search) consistently has one of the largest web indexes on the Internet. 

Supports searches for different types of information: Web Pages, News, Pictures, Videos, MP3s and FTP files.

Try an AllTheWeb search here:

Supports:
+ in front of the word: AND operator.
- in front of the term: NOT operator.
" ": Phrase searching
( ): Parenthesis to group boolean expressions
Domain, IP address, Filter, etc. in advanced search.

Does not support:
Wildcards (*) or truncations