| Search Engine Features | ||||||
| Feature | Alta Vista | Infoseek | Excite | WebCrawler | Yahoo! | Lycos |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Must appear | + | + | + | +/AND | + | no |
| Must not appear | - | - | - | NOT | - | no |
| Phrases | "---" | "---" | "---" | "---" | "---" | no |
| Name Recognition | no | Use capital initials | no | no | no | no |
| Searching within a set of results | no | yes | no | no | no | no |
| Wildcards | * | no | no | no | * | $ |
| Case sensitive | yes | yes | no | no | no | no |
| Directory Listings | no | yes | yes | yes | yes | Over 10,000 reviewed web sites |
| Other information | Can search USENET groups | Can find email addresses, people, businesses (US only) | Uses Intelligent Concept Extraction (ICE) which makes intelligent relations between pages | Has options to display maps of US Cities which are searched for | Can define minimum age of sites to be found | Use its custom search page for AND. Can be used to search for pictures and sounds |
| Field Searches Available | ||||||
| Field | Alta Vista | Infoseek | Yahoo! | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Title | title: | title: | t: | |||
| URL | URL: | URL: | u: | |||
| Links | link: | link: | ||||
| Host | host: | site: | ||||
| Anchors | anchor: | |||||
| Text body | text: | |||||
| Applets | applet: | |||||
| ActiveX objects | object: | |||||
| Images | image: | |||||
| Domain names | domain: | |||||