Searching On My Site Having trouble finding what you are looking for? Looking for something in particular? Trying to remember where that page was the last time you were here? Just curious if I have anything about a particular topic? This is your answer. Just type your search words in one of the boxes below and click on the search button. Why All The Options? Two reasons: I want to experiment with different engines and services.   I want for visiting webmasters to be able to see how the different services work. NB: You will leave my domain when you run any of these searches. You will go to the search engine site.

Extended Search Page: Includes everything that this page has, plus it has an extended discussion of the features of each of these search engines and some of my experiences in creating this page.  ««»»

Search Services Summary: Has a comparison table summarizing the features of each of these search engines.  ««»»

Atomz

NB: Atomz has not fully indexed my site pending a change to their system to address the Meta Robots (noindex) tag. It indexed 500 pages and stopped. See the discussion on the Extended Search Page for more details. However, a sufficient quantity and diversity has been indexed to show the two different types of results pages.

The Fully Custom version shows what is possible with HTML editing. The Template Configured page was created only by completing forms.

Fully Custom Results Page

Template Configured Results Page

FreeFind

PicoSearch

SearchButton

NB: This is still under development. The Simple Search seems to be working. I'm still experimenting with the Advanced Search and don't quite have it right yet, but they are helping me with it. See the discussion on the Extended Search Page for more details. 

Simple Search

Click the little graphic "searchbutton" immediately above to search The Refrigerator Door using SearchButton.

Advanced Search

Click the little graphic "searchbutton" immediately above to search The Refrigerator Door using SearchButton.

Search Options

Search in title: Date range: through Query parser: Internet Boolean

Result Options

Show summaries: Results per page: 5 10 20 50 100 Max docs retrieved: 200 500 1000 Sort on: Score Date

SiteMiner

Thunderstone

N. B.: Because of the total space limit, Thunderstone will not index my entire site. However, it is included to permit you to see how it works and how it can be configured.

Also, because Thunderstone uses the "values" of the two buttons, these cannot be changed as they have been for all other forms on this page.

Simple Search

Advanced Search

Search for this:
Without this:
RANKING FACTORS Rank Factor Importance Word ordering off low medium high max Word proximity off low medium high max Database Frequency off low medium high max Document Frequency off low medium high max Position in text off low medium high max	PROXIMITY line sentence paragraph page   WORD FORMS Exact match Plural & posessives Any word forms
SEARCH HELP Using logic operators Regular Expressions Phrase Matching Quantity Searching Wild Card Searches More Subjects... Using the Thesaurus

whatUseek (IntraSearch)

This page created:
before Wed, 16.Aug.2000

Last updated:
18:14, Thu, 27.Mar.2008