Howtosearch

Fravia's search forms and tools (version May 1999)	...	Daylight at the moment

[Search engines forms] ~ [usenet] ~ [inference forms] ~ [All-in-one forms]
Altavista	Yahoo!	Excite	Wwworm	Magellan	Lykos	FTP-search	Webcrawler	Infoseek	Hotbot	Northernlight

Just copy this page onto your harddisk as c:\sealight.htm (or whatever), and then use it (after having edited anything you fancy) in order to perform EFFECTIVE searches on the web (and elsewhere). Check the complete search engines and the various how to search pages for more explanations and to acquire all the necessary skills.

Over 100 million files have been catalogued by Lycos, now managing the famous Trondheim engine, and can be searched using either the

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Search for
Search type: Case insensitive substring searchCase sensitive substring searchCase insensitive glob searchCase sensitive glob searchCase insensitive multiple substrings searchRegular expression searchExact searchNavigateCase insensitive substring matchCase sensitive substring matchCase insensitive glob matchCase sensitive glob matchRegular expression match Try exact hits first
Max hits: Max matches: Max hits/match:
Limit to domain:  Limit to path: 
Hide:  Packages Distfiles FreeBSD OpenBSD NetBSD Linux

Formatting Parameters
Output fields: -HostSizeDatePathNameModeTypeLenTimeCount-HostSizeDatePathNameModeTypeLenTimeCount-HostSizeDatePathNameModeTypeLenTimeCount-HostSizeDatePathNameModeTypeLenTimeCount-HostSizeDatePathNameModeTypeLenTimeCount-HostSizeDatePathNameModeTypeLenTimeCount
Per-host header:  nothingjust hostHost and country
Sort by:  nothing (unsorted)Host, pathHost (distance)Size, dateDate, host
Truncate hostnames (longer than  characters.)

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WEBCRAWLER

Search the web and show titles summaries for 10 25 100 results

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INFOSEEK

Search the World Wide Web Infoseek Select Sites Usenet Newsgroups E-mail Addresses Web FAQs

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HOTBOT

all the wordsany of the wordsexact phrasethe page titlethe personlinks to this URLBoolean phrase
anytimein the last weekin the last 2 weeksin the last monthin the last 3 monthsin the last 6 monthsin the last yearin the last 2 years
any languageDutchEnglishFinnishFrenchGermanItalianPortugueseSpanishSwedish
Pages Must Include:

image  MP3
video  JavaScript

Return Results:
102550100full descriptionsbrief descriptionsURLs only

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NORTHERN LIGHT

(Click redball to perform your search)

Select: All Sources -- Search the World Wide Web & Special Collection World Wide Web -- Search the entire World Wide Web Special Collection -- 1 million articles not on other search engines

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Usenet

You can of course search usenet switching the search engines above, else use the 'usenet dedicated' depositories...
http://www.dejanews.com/
This is where you can do many researches. Find a newsgroup that talks about your subjects first, then go there and refine the search by adding to or typing over the original search entry displayed in the query box.

Search Usenet For:
Select documents matching all any keywords.
Display hitlist in concise detailed format.

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http://www.reference.com

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Inference robots and scripts

(Scripts that allow you to query (almost) simultaneously more than one search engine: "The Intelligent Massively Fast Parallel Web Search")

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Inference find search (This little juwel will produce an *.htm file with all found links in correct order)

Enter Query:	And click this redball:
MaxTime:	1 5 7 10 30 seconds

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Dogpile web search (Dogpile is the "summa" of the main search engines)

Search The Web Usenet FTP Newswires and then The Web Usenet FTP Newswires STOP
Wait a maximum of Ten Twenty Thirty Forty Fifty Sixty Seconds.

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Google (Very important inference tool because it has CACHED pages!)

Search the web using Google

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All-in-one forms

(AV, EX, LY, NS, WC, YA, FT, FZ, IP image search)

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(AV, EX, IS, LY, YA)

Search the internet for AltaVista Excite Infoseek Lycos Yahoo

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search engines - heavy ~ how to search

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homepage links +ORC students' essays academy database
tools javascripts wars cocktails anonimity academy antismut CGI-scripts
bot wars counter measures mail_Fravia
Is reverse engineering legal?

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