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Exalead

Access: Publicly available resource

Description: Web search engine that allows users to find material by language, country, file format, domain or site, and modification date. Features include:

  • the option to specify that retrieved sites "preferably contain" all the terms you are searching for, in addition to "must contain" and "must not contain".
  • proximity searching, in which words must be within a certain number of words of each other.
  • truncation to catch all the permuations of a word stem.
  • phonetic spelling and approximate spelling.
  • searching for documents with words that match a certain pattern.


Coverage: Various Dates

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