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How do I search?

In the Search box, type one or more words that describe what you're looking for, like Tony Hawk 900. If you want to search for two proper names, separate them with a comma, like this: Sean Palmer, Jake Burton. Click the Find button.

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How do I search for a specific phrase (PHRASE search)?

Example: "skateboard hawk 900"
To search for a phrase, enclose the phrase in double quotes. Phrase searching finds Web pages where the words in the phrase appear next to each other. If you searched for the example without the quotes, Infoseek would find Web pages that contain the words skateboard, hawk, and 900 separately, anywhere within each page.

Another way to specify a phrase is to capitalize each word as in Tony Hawk. Infoseek treats all sequences of capitalized words as if they are quoted. To search for more than one proper name in a single search, separate the names with a comma. Otherwise, the search tries to match both names together as a single phrase, and may not return any results. For example, type Tony Hawk, Andy Macdonald instead of Tony Hawk Andy Macdonald.

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How do I search for combinations of words or phrases (AND search)?

Example: +"vert skating" +wheels
To indicate that a keyword must appear in the results, put a plus sign in front of the keyword. The example searches for Web pages that contain vert skating and wheels. The word wheels is preferred but not required. To indicate that a phrase must appear in the results, place the plus sign outside of the phrase, like this: +"sound effects" audio.

Note: Do not type a space between the plus sign and the keyword or phrase.

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How do I search for possible occurrences of multiple words (OR search)?

Example: author writer photographer
To search for any one of the keywords that you enter, type your keywords without any special punctuation; just put spaces between each keyword. This tells Infoseek to find Web pages that contain at least one of your keywords, and returns the broadest number of results. The example shows an OR search that uses words with similar meanings to return lots of results. To focus an OR search, you may want to add one or more AND keywords as well, like this: author writer photographer +Maverick's.

To search for any one of multiple proper names, put a comma between each proper name, like this: Weaver, Johnson, Graves. You can also use commas to separate words that may form undesirable phrases. For example, you can enter record, player piano to indicate that you want to search for player piano and not record player. (See Phrase search for more information.)

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How do I exclude words from my search (NOT search)?

Example: "small dogs" -chihuahua
To indicate that a keyword must not appear in the results, put a minus sign in front of the keyword. (Notice there is no space between the minus sign and the word.) The example returns pages that include content about small dogs, but not ones that contain the word chihuahua.

To indicate that a phrase must not appear in the results, place the minus sign outside of the phrase. This example finds Web pages about big waves but excludes boogie boarding sites: "big waves" -"boogie boarding".

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How do I perform a case-sensitive search?

Example: Dawg
Use mixed case words to match characters exactly as typed, such as Michael, Bones, or NeXT. Use lowercase keywords to match any combination of uppercase and lowercase characters in your search results. The example finds Dawg but not dawg or DAWG. Case sensitivity does not apply to phrase searches.

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How do I search within a set of results?

Example: dance | thrash To search within one set of results for another keyword, type a | symbol between the keywords. (The | symbol is called the pipe symbol. To type the pipe symbol on most keyboards, press Shift-backslash.)

The example first finds Web sites that contain dance, and then finds Web sites that contain thrash within the first set of results. This example finds snowboard park information in northern California: "snowboard park" | "northern California"

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How do I search Web page titles?

Example: title:"lunch box collecting"
Most Web pages have titles that appear in the title bar at the top of your Web browser window. You can search just within Web page titles, which can focus your search and return Web pages that are very relevant to what you're searching for.

To search within Web page titles, type title: followed by your search keywords. You can combine title searching with other keywords, like this: +title:Beatles +Ringo Starr

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How do I search Internet addresses (URLs)?

Example: +url:travel +Colorado Every Web page has an Internet address, which usually appears in an Address box near the top of your browser. This address (also called the URL) contains a domain name followed by folder names and a filename that indicates the location of the Web page file on a computer. Here's an example of a URL:

http://travel.org/northamerica/colorado.html

You can search just within Web page URLs to help focus your search. To search within Web page addresses, type url: followed by your search keywords. The example locates Web pages that contain travel in the URL and Colorado in the text of the Web page.

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How do I search for images (IMAGELINK Search)?

Example: imagelink:halfpipe
Image links are hyperlinks attached to images. Search for image links within a document by using the imagelink field search. This search behaves similarly to the link field search, but only hyperlinks to images are searched. For example, suppose you are looking for an image that is linked to a page containing the word "halfpipe" in the URL. That image could be found using the image link search:

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How do I search for links?

Example: +link:widgets.com
Links are the buttons and text on Web pages that take you to other pages when you click them. To search for Web pages that contain links to a particular site or page, type link: followed by the address or URL of the page you are interested in.