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Roger Gonzales
AltaVista’s Search Features
AltaVista offers a wide range of search features. Most of these options are available in its "Advanced Search" section.
Boolean search - Full Boolean Search support. AND (+), OR, AND NOT (-) (instead of NOT) Search terms can be nested.
Phrase - Available. Put quotes around the phrase, such as "New York Times"
Proximity - Available. NEAR operator means within ten words of one another. Can be nested with other tags.
Word Stemming - Available. You can use the wild card (*) at the end or in the middle of a word.
Capitalization - If you search in upper case, AltaVista searches in upper case only. Lower case words and phrases search for upper and lower case, and will therefore yield more results.
Field Search - The following options are available:
. Applet: searches for the name of an applet
. Domain: specifies the domain extension, such as .com
. Host: searches for pages within a particular site
. Image: searches for an image name
. Link: searches for pages that link to the specified site
. Object: search engines - searches for the name of an object
ext: excludes Meta tags information
. Title: search in the HTML title only
. URL: searches for sites that have a specified word in the URL
Date Searching - Available under Advanced Search section.
Search within results - Available. This option is offered after each search.
Media Type searching - Available for Images, Music/MP3, and Video.
Language Searching - AltaVista has very extensive language support. It supports around 30 languages.
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