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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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(
) |
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. |
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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. |
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domain:domainname |
Finds pages within the specified domain. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
