reasearch journal, Part 8

AltaVista is the first search tool that I tried.This particular one has boxes that you can enter what words you want to use that take the place of boolean operators, truncating, and phrases.



You can then choose what type of domain you want. .com, or only .edu, etc.
You can also choose what site you would like, as well as what file format and finally, you can filter out adult web sites


Metacrawler is set up with the same boxes for choices as AltaVista. You also can choose language and whether or not to include a domain. You can also use preferences to to set filters and bold search teerms. You can also track and search the 15 most recent searchs

Infomine, is the last one I choose. In the search tips, it shows all the different ways of fine tuning:




This is a partial list.
You can also do an advanced search options:



They also have canned_search where you can use an interactive form  to set complex query terms and search options, then generates an URL to perform it. You will find this under customize on the dark blu ribbon. You can also query by a pull-down menu by subject under customize and publications on the dark blue ribbon. Finally, at the bottom under other search tools, it gives more hints of using quotaion marks and the + and - signs. You can also hop to google, altavista, all the web and hotbot