Advanced Search Engine Features Chart

 

Last updated Nov. 02, 2002.

 

Search Engines

Boolean

Default

Proximity

Case

Fields

Limits

Stop

Sorting

Google

-, OR

and

Phrase

No

intitle, inurl, more

Language, filetype, date, more

Yes, + searches

Relevance, site

AllTheWeb  

+, -, or with ( )

and

Phrase

No

title, URL, link, more

Language, domain, PDF, more

No

Relevance, site

Lycos  

+, -

and

Phrase

No

title, URL, link, more

Language, domain

No

Relevance

AltaVista Simple

+, -, AND, OR, AND NOT, ( )

and, phrase

Phrase, NEAR

No

title, URL, link, more

Language

No

Relevance, site

AltaVista Adv.

and, or, and not, ( )

phrase

Phrase, near, within, <, <~

Yes

title, URL, link, more

Language, date

No

Relevance, if used

HotBot

and, or, not,
( ), +, -

and

Phrase

Yes

title, more

Language, date, more

Yes

Relevance, site

MSN Search

AND, OR, NOT,
( ), +, -

and

Phrase

Yes

title, link

Language, date, more

Yes

Relevance

Teoma

- only

and

Phrase

No

intitle, inurl

Language, site

Yes, + searches

Relevance, metasites

WiseNut

- only

and

Phrase

No

No

Language

Yes, + searches

Relevance, site

Gigablast

+, -

or

Phrase

No

Title, site, ip, more

No

No

Relevance, date

Openfind

none

and

None

No

No

Language

No

Relevance, date, size

NLResearch

and, or, not,
( ), +, -

and

Phrase

No

title, URL, more

Doc type
date, more

No

Relevance, site, date, folders

 

Source: http://searchengineshowdown.com/features/