Sunday, February 21, 2010

Search Tool

The search tool I chose to look more into was ixquick.

The five great tools of this search are:
1. Use the + sign in front of words that must be in your search. Example: Granny smith +apple +pie recipe. You will get all apple pie recipes including granny smith recipes, if you wanted only granny smith recipes you would also put a + in front of it also.
2. Use the - sign in front of words that must not be present. Example: Nascar news -Kyle Bush. If you are looking for news from Nascar but you don't want information or articles on Kyle Bush this is how to skip the cry baby all together.
3. Use host: all information on this page must be located on this specified computer or on more specific computers. Example: host :columbian.com you will get info from columbian.com and www.columbian.com
4. Use link: page must contain a hyperlink for which at least one of the words in the destination address begins with specified text. Example: link:nytimes
5. Use "" to keep phrases together and not all over the page. Example: "south park" will make sure you get the naughty cartoon and not parks that are south of somewhere.

1 comment:

  1. You are funny.. and who is the cry baby, anyway?

    Excellent work! Congratulations for stepping outside of your usual search engine and for listing some great features.

    Have a good weekend,
    Sue

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