Search Strategies for the Internet

IV Fact Sheets

Gigablast

http://www.gigablast.com/

Key features

• Giga Bits at the top of your results lists suggests related or similar searches
• automatically links to older copies of web pages in the Wayback Machine
• gives the date a page was indexed and any available information on when it was last modified

Search options

Default search type	All of your words
Case sensitive?	No
Wildcard/Truncation	No
Phrases and proximity	"……" For example "building society"
Mandatory search terms	Plus sign (+) before words for example +wind +farms
Exclude pages containing a term	Minus sign (-) before the word, for example branson -balloon
Word in the URL	suburl: for pages with the term in their URL, for example suburl:chocolate
Word in title	title: for pages that contain the adjacent word in the title, for example title:chocolate
Linked pages	link: for pages that link to a known URL, for example link:www.potato.org.uk Exclude your starting page or site by using -host: for example link:www.potato.org.uk -host:www.potato.org.uk
Similar pages	No
Limit by domain/site	suburl: to limit by part of a domain name, for example suburl:uk for UK sites site: to search one specific web site, for example site:statistics.gov.uk
File type	type: to specify a file type, for example type:xls PDF, Word, PowerPoint, Excel and Postscript files are currently supported.
Cached copy available	Yes.
Boolean search	AND, OR, AND NOT (must be in capital letters)
Specify language	No
Limit by country	No
Limit by date	No
Unique features	Giga Bits, Reference Pages and Related pages suggest alternative strategies and sources. Results include links to text only versions of a page and to archived copies in the Wayback Machine.

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