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Major Search Engines – Features Guide

Ask www.ask.com

fr.ask.com

Bing

www.bing.com Google

www.google.com

google.fr

Yahoo

yahoo.com

fr.yahoo.com

For almost all of the features indicated below, corresponding options are available on the engine’s advanced search page.

BOOLEAN term term

(Defaults to an AND)

-term (for NOT) (term

OR term)

term term

(Defaults to an AND)

-term (for NOT) (term OR term)

term term

(Defaults to an AND)

-term (for NOT)

term OR term

term term

(Defaults to an AND)

-term (for NOT)

(term OR term)

PHRASE “ ” “ ” “ ” “ ”

STEMMING Some automatic

stemming

Some automatic

stemming

TITLE FIELD intitle:term intitle: term intitle:term

allintitle:term1 term2

intitle:term

SITE / URL

FIELD

inurl: term

term site:term

site:term inurl:term

allinurl:term term

site:term

site:term

“LINKS TO” A

URL

link:term

FILE TYPE filetype:extension

filetype:extension

filetype:extension

LANGUAGE Choice of 6 languages

on Advanced Search

page.

Language:xx

Choice of 41 languages

on Advanced Search

page.

Choice of 44 languages

on Advanced Search

page.

Language:xx

Choice of 41 languages

on Advanced Search

page.

NUMERIC

RANGES

nnnn..mmmm

e.g., 1850..1899

MEDIA

SEARCHING

Images search

Video search

Images search

Video search

Images search

Video search

Images search

Video search

SIMILAR PAGES yes

ALSO SHOWN

ON

RESULTS PAGES

Link to cached page

Related Topics

Link to cached page

Related searches

Search history

Stock quotes

News headlines

“Show options”

Link to cached page

Translations options

Stock quote option

Link to definitions, news,

video, blog results

Addresses/phone #s

News Headlines

My Search History

Link to cached page

Related searches

Shortcuts, etc. Stock quote option

News Headlines

OUTSTANDING

SPECIAL

FEATURES

hasfeed:

inanchor:

ip:

location: Equation solver

Maps

Covers many formats

Numeric range search Language Tools

"My Yahoo"

hasfeed:

inanchor:

ip:

location:

OTHER

SEARCHABLE

DATABASES

Maps, News, Shopping,

Q&A, TV Listings,

Events, Recipes, Blogs

Maps, News, Shopping,

Travel, Twitter, Visual

Maps, News, Shopping,

Books, Groups,

Scholar (journals),

Blogs, Earth, Patents,

Code

Maps, News, Shopping,

Answers, Directory,

Creative Commons,

Jobs, People, Travel