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Search Engines Help Sheet
General Search Engine Comparison Chart
The chart below shows the special syntaxes available in seven commonly used search engines.
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| Boolean Operators |
+, -, OR |
+, - OR, NOT |
OR, +, - |
AND,
OR,
NOT
+, - |
and, or, andnot, rank, +, -
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+, -
AND, OR,
AND NOT |
AND,
OR,
NOT,
+, - |
| Boolean Default |
AND |
AND |
AND |
AND |
AND |
AND |
AND |
| Phrase Search |
" " |
" " |
" " |
" " |
" " |
" " |
" " |
| Title Field Search |
intitle:
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intitle: |
intitle: |
No |
title: |
title: |
Pull-down
menu,
"Word Filter"
In the Title |
| URL Field Search |
inurl:
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inurl: |
inurl: |
via
pull-down menu |
url .all: |
url: |
url |
| Site/Domain Search |
site: |
domain: |
site: |
NA |
url.host: |
host: |
Site Search |
| Truncation & Wildcard |
No |
* |
No |
No |
No |
* |
No |
| Case Sensitive |
No |
No |
No |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
| Filetype Searches |
HTML, PPT,
Excel,
PDF,
Word |
HTML, PDF,
Excel,
PPT,
Word, XML,
TXT |
No |
HTML, PPT,
Excel,
PDF,
Word |
HTML, PPT,
Excel,
PDF,
Word |
HTML, PPT,
Excel,
PDF,
Word |
HTML,
PPT,
Excel,
PDF,
Word |
| Page Content |
No |
Acrobat, Activex, Applet, Audio, Flash, Frame, Image, Javascript, Shock-wave, Script, Video |
No |
Image, MP3, Shock-wave,
Java Applets, Audio, ActiveX, PDF,
Video, VBScript, JavaScript |
Images, Video, Audio |
Images, MP3, Audio, Video |
Audio,
Image,
Java,
MP3, RealAudio
/Video,
Script,
Shockwave
/Flash,
Video,
WinMedia |
TOP Meta-Search Engine Comparison Chart
The following chart highlights the features available in five powerful meta search engines.
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Dogpile |
iBoogie |
Clusty |
Ixquick |
SurfWax |
| Basic Boolean |
+, - |
+ |
AND, OR, + |
+, -, and |
+ , - |
| Phrase Search |
" " |
" " |
" " |
" " |
" " |
| Search Engines Included |
Google, Yahoo, LiveSearch, Ask, About, MIVA, LookSmart |
Yahoo, FindWhat, OpenFind, MSN, Teoma, AltaVista, Fast, Wisenut |
AllTheWeb, Yahoo, MSN, AOL, Netscape |
AllTheWeb, Gigablast, Go, MSN, Ask Jeeves, Teoma, HotBot, OpenDirectory, EntireWeb, Kanoodle, Overture, FindWhat, LookSmart |
AllTheWeb, AltaVista, AOL, Excite, HotBot, MSN, NBCi, Open Directory, Yahoo |
| Search Engines Excluded |
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Google |
Google |
Google |
Google |
| Special Features |
Images, Audio, Video, Language, Domain, title, inurl: |
Images, Video, Audio, Deep Web
Results Folder, Similar Pages, Languge, Hierarchical Intelligent Clustering |
Field Searching domain:
title:
host:
site:
link:
linktext:
text:
url: |
MP3, News, Pictures, Truncation, *, Nesting, (), Case Sensitive, Field Searching
title:
domain:
host:
image:
url:
link:
text:
related: |
SiteSnaps, FocusWords, SearchSets, ContextZooming, InfoCubby, Invisible Web ,
Sort alpha, relevancy, or by source |
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Web Directory Comparison Chart
The chart below shows special syntaxes available when searching three web directories.
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Finding Valencia Library Items in Google Scholar
You can customize Google Scholar to tell you when your results are available at Valencia Community College Libraries. Here's how:
- Go to http://scholar.google.com
- Click on Scholar Preferences.
- In the Library Links window, search for Valencia Community College.
- Select both Valencia Community College (Find Text via LINCCWeb) and Valencia Community College West Campus (Full Text@IngentaConnect).
- Click Save Preferences.
- Return to Google Scholar search page. After searching for your topic, you will now be able to link to Valencia's catalog from your results page! For example:
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