Search Engine

Advantages

AlltheWeb

• Boolean: and, or, andnot, ( ), +, -, or with ()
• Size: Large number of sites indexed

AltaVista

• Boolean: +, -, and, or, and not, ( )
• Size: Large number of sites indexed

Ask Jeeves

• Boolean: none

Google

• Boolean: -, or
• Size: Large number of sites indexed
• Relevance Ranking: Based on number of sites linked to a site

MSN Search

• Boolean: and, or, not, ( ), +, -
• Size: Large number of sites indexed

Yahoo

• Boolean: +,-
• Size: Indexes selected sites
• Special Features: Directory structure and assigned topics