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Lycos at a Glance
The Lycos home page (www.lycos.com), shown in Figure 5-1, contains a variety of links to different content and services. There are links to major services (including My Lycos and Lycos Mail) at the very top of the page, with a search box just below that. The left side of the page contains links to Lycos topics with news and other highlights featured in the center of the page. a 60 savings over other datine sites a 60 savings over other datine sites < t 99 Lycos Is Part of a Larger Network of...
Hot Bot at a Glance
As you can see in Figure 10-1, the HotBot home page (www.hotbot.com) is relatively simple. There's the expected search box and button, of course, but there's something extra a list of four different search engines. That's because HotBot lets you search not only its own search engine but also three other search engines as you'll learn in our very first HotBot secret, coming up next. Figure 10-1 Search four different search engines from the HotBot home page. Figure 10-1 Search four different...
Personalize the Excite Home Page
Most portals let you create a separate My page, which you can personalize as you wish. Excite does it a little differently, letting you customize the actual Excite home page, which then becomes your My Excite page. Thereafter, whenever you go to www.excite.com it displays your personalized page. Personalizing the Excite home page is as easy as clicking the Page Settings, Select Content, Layout, Colors, and Themes buttons. Make your selections and you turn the regular Excite home page into your...
Find Specific Items for Sale
While eBay makes it easy to browse through the numerous categories of merchandise offered for sale, there are so many items listed in most categories that browsing in this fashion is virtually impractical. It's much more efficient to use eBay's search function to search the millions of active auctions for those particular items you're shopping for. Using eBay search is like using the search function at Google and similar sites. Enter one or more keywords into the search box on eBay's home page...
Excite at a Glance
The Excite home page (www.excite.com), shown in Figure 4-1, is where it all begins. The top of the page contains the expected search box, and links to most of the site's content and services are down the left side of the page. The middle of the page contains news stories and additional links, while the right side is reserved for weather, horoscopes, and other personalized information. Once you register as a user, the Excite home page will display your local TV listings on the bottom of the...
Alta Vista Secrets
Secrets in This Chapter 208 Speed Up AltaVista with a Text-Only Search 182 209 Restrict Your Search to U.S. Sites Only 183 210 Restrict Your Search to English-Language Pages Only 183 211 Use Babel Fish to Translate a Foreign Page 183 212 Fine-Tune Your Search with Boolean Operators 184 213 Create Complex Boolean 214 Search for an Exact 215 Expand Your Search with 216 Search for Pages on a Specific Web Site or Domain 186 217 Restrict Your Search to a Page's Title, Text, or Links 186 218 Search...
Ask Jeeves at a Glance
The Ask Jeeves home page (www.ask.com ) is as simple in its appearance as the home page of Google and AllTheWeb. As you can see in Figure 8-1, the page offers up a big search box (prefaced by a very polite message from Jeeves, the butler Greetings. Please enter your search or question. Enter your query into the search box, click the Ask button, and Ask Jeeves will deliver the expected page of search results. Figure 8-1 Ask Jeeves your question, and get a page of search results.
Yahooligans
Even better than filtering your children's Internet usage, why not give them their own kids-safe start page to use when they're surfing Yahool provides just such a page called Yahooligansl Yahooligansl www.yahooligans.com is a kids-oriented directory that is part of the Yahool network of sites. Each site listed in the Yahooligansl directory has been carefully checked by an experienced educator to ensure that the site's content is appropriate for children aged 7 to 12. As you can see in Figure...
MSN Search Returns Four Types of Results
When you conduct a search with MSN Search, the search results page (like the one shown in Figure 2-5) includes four different types of results. At the very top of the page is a listing of Popular Topics that you can use to help refine your search. Next up is a short list of Featured Sites, followed by a longer list of Web Directory Sites, and then the much longer list of Web Pages. The sum total of all these results provides a best of all worlds search, unique among the major search sites you...