Special Searches
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.
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 is 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. |
