Punctuation is ignored by the search engine. More about how Alta Vista Works. UC Berkeley's Tutorial CUSI Search Page Configurable Unified Search Interfaces are pages that offer many search forms, which connect to numerous Web search engines in the default mode. To change defaults or read about how various engines operate, use the direct links to the nearly 50 engines on this page. Super Searcher has a form entry Search page that links to the next three search engines below with no explanation of how they work.
Robots scan the Web everyday for new URLs.
Once a week the robot composes abstracts and builds new indexes, which are scored by the closeness of a word to the beginning of a document. You can connect directly to the Lycos Search CGI page . Read the Search language Description to discover the best ways to search the database. Originated at Carnegie-Mellon in October 1994, Lycos technology was purchased in June 1995 by CMG Information Services, Inc., which promised to maintain the free search service. Web Crawler Robot has indexed the contents, not just titles, of 70K WWW documents and is working on 300K other known documents.