Unit 7: Search Engines

subject directory
-Complete Planet:The Deep Web

5 search features of the advance search tool
-Document Text feature lets you use certain or all terms and phrases
contains ALL of these terms and phrases:
contains SOME of these terms or phrases:
does NOT contain these terms or phrases:

-Document Title, Document Keyword, and Document Description:
lets you search using different options like
all of these words
any of these words
as a phrase
as a Boolean query

-with the (and were last updated) option you can search anytime, from 30 days all the way to 5 years back, or if you choose to type in a specific date like
on or after (mm/dd/yyyy)
and on or before (mm/dd/yyyy)

-with the (and show) options you choose to get anywhere from 10, 25, 50, 75, to a 100 results depending on how broad you want your search to be

-different boolean operator that can be used for this site are
AND, OR, AND NOT, &, +, -, "quotes", NEAR, BEFORE, AFTER, (Parentheses), Wildcards and Stemming like [],*,

Acceptable Characters
1234567890( ) " ' , . - _ [these must all occur within a quoted phrase, e.g., "1990's"]
abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ

Ignored Characters
@#$% ^ ~ = | < > ; : \ [ ] { } / ?