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You can restrict searches to certain portions of web documents by using
Infoseek's field syntax. This allows you to search for web pages'
titles, urls, embedded hypertext links, and any additional information
defined with an HTML meta tag. The field name
should be in lower case, and immediately followed by a colon. There
should be no spaces after the colon and before the search terms.
Examples
- link:infoseek.com
- Matches pages that contain at least one
link to a page with infoseek.com in its URL. For example, you
can use +link:infoseek.com -url:infoseek.com to see how many
external links point to Infoseek. Note that unlike other search engines,
Infoseek gives you exact counts, not approximations. Some search engines
call this feature "searching backwards".
- site:sun.com
- Finds pages on the web site
sun.com. The site field search examines the
"site" part of the URL only. Therefore, site:sun.com
will find such sites as java.sun.com, www.sun.com and
playground.sun.com, but won't match any site that ends in
sun.co.uk. You can use the site field search to bring up all
pages at a particular web site.
- url:science
- Finds pages with the word science
anywhere in the page's URL. For example:
http://www.discovery.com/science.html
You can also use the url field selection to find out the exact number of
pages currently in the database. Just type url:http. This
number updated as pages are added and removed from our database.
- title:"The New York Times"
- Finds pages with the
phrase "The New York Times" in the title portion of the
document.
- likes:chocolate
- Finds pages with an HTML meta tag with
name likes and with content containing chocolate. For
example:
<meta name="likes" content="beer
chocolate movies long walks">
This is an example of a field defined by an HTML
meta tag. There is nothing special about the word
likes. Any search field can be defined with a meta tag, as long
as the name of the field is a single word made from all small letters.
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