My evaluation looked at Google, AltaVista, GoTo, and HotBot . I was surprised to discover that GoTo and HotBot produced virtually identical results. In fact, the only difference was in the way the results were presented. Obits Google does an AND search by default. This means that it looks for the occurance of every word in the search as opposed to any word.
Quotation marks refine the search for specific combinations of words.
English Chinese Czech Danish Dutch Estonian Finnish French German Greek Hebrew Hungarian Icelandic Italian Japanese Korean Latvian Lithuanian Norwegian Polish Portuguese Romanian Russian Spanish Swedish AltaVista word, on the other hand, does an OR search by default. It returns pages that have any of the search words in them as opposed to every word. The pages that have every word are shown first. AltaVista searches can be focused fairly easily through the use of the plus symbol and quotation marks. They appear to do an AND search by default, returning pages that have every one of the search words in them as opposed to any word.