Arraaqi's fortress

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Search forms and tools ~ (Version February 1999)

[Search engines forms]
Altavista	Yahoo!	Excite	Wwworm	Magellan	Lykos	Webcrawler	Infoseek	Hotbot	Northernlight

[usenet] [inference forms] [other specialized search engines]
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This page will allow you to perform EFFECTIVE searches on the web (and elsewhere!: Usenet searches are for instance extremely important in order to find information or data effectively). Check the the [how to search] page for more explanations on the 'working habits' of the various search engines and in order to acquire all the necessary skills.

lycos_ftp normal
lycos_ftp advanced

About the only thing that works at reference.com after 4 months of supposed fixes following a server crash, is a plain search and signup for an account by E-mail methods. The stored queries don't work, modifications don't work, and out of the 3 E-mail address for help and manuals, the only one that works is: [email protected] (or at least it did on 02Feb99). E-mail to all sorts of people at the site also goes unanswered.

This site must be maintained by the worst people they can find. Half the time the web search page doesn't work either! You are better of using DejaNews as that site is always up and dependable.

(Scripts that allow you to query (almost) simultaneously more than one search engine: "The Intelligent Massively Fast Parallel Web Search")