Directory of Search Engines

Directory of Search Engines

A comprehensive list of Internet Search Engines and links to their advanced search pages. Also check out www.searchenginewatch.com.

Search Engines

alltheweb.com
AltaVista
Ask
AOL
DMOZ
Dogpile
Excite
Google.com
HotBot
Infodump
LookSmart
Lycos
MetaCrawler
Mamma
MAMMA
PowerMSN
Teoma
Vivisimo
WebCrawler
Wisenut.com
Yahoo!

Advanced Search Pages

alltheweb Advanced Search
AltaVista - Search
DMOZ Advanced Search
Dog Pile Advanced Search
Google Advanced Search
Hotbot Advanced Search
Lycos Pro Search
MetaCrawler Advanced Search
Teoma Advanced Search
Webcrawler Advanced Search
Yahoo! Advanced

Advanced Search: Boolean Cheat Sheet

AND
Finds documents containing all of the specified words or phrases. Resume AND Sales finds documents with both the word Resume and the word Sales.

OR
Finds documents containing at least one of the specified words or phrases. Resume OR Sales finds documents containing either Resume or Sales. The found documents could contain both items, but not necessarily.

AND NOT
Excludes documents containing the specified word or phrase. Resume AND NOT Sales finds documents with Resume but not containing Sales. NOT must be used with another operator, like AND. AltaVista does not accept 'Resume NOT Sales'; instead, specify Resume AND NOT Sales.

NEAR
Finds documents containing both specified words or phrases within 10 words of each other. Resume NEAR Sales would find documents with Resume Sales, but probably not any other kind of Sales.

( )
Use parentheses to group complex Boolean phrases. For example, (Resume AND Sales) AND (Selling OR CV) finds documents with the words 'Resume Sales and Selling' or 'Resume Sales and CV' or both.

anchor:text
Finds pages that contain the specified word or phrase in the text of a hyperlink. anchor:"Click here to visit sales.com" would find pages with "Click here to visit sales.com" as a link.

domain:domainname
Finds pages within the specified domain.

host:hostname
Finds pages on a specific computer. The search host:www.shopping.com would find pages on the Shopping.com computer, and host:dilbert.unitedmedia.com would find pages on the computer called dilbert at unitedmedia.com.

link:URLtext
Finds pages with a link to a page with the specified URL text. Use link:www.myway.com to find all pages linking to myway.com.

text:text
Finds pages that contain the specified text in any part of the page other than an image tag, link, or URL. The search text:graduation would find all pages with the term graduation in them.

title:text
Finds pages that contain the specified word or phrase in the page title (which appears in the title bar of most browsers). The search title:resume would find pages with resume in the title.

url:text
Finds pages with a specific word or phrase in the URL. Use url:myway.com to find all pages on all servers that have the word myway in the host name, path, or filename--the complete URL, in other words.