Ask.com Search Features
Ask.com offers a wide range of search features. Most of these options are available in its "Advanced Search" section.
Boolean search - Limited Boolean searching is available. Ask defaults to an AND between search terms and supports the use of - for NOT.
Either OR or ORR can be used for an OR operation, but the operator must be in all upper case. Unfortunately, no nesting is available, so term1 term2 OR term3 is processed as (term1 AND term2) OR term3.
Try the advanced search, but it is still difficult to do a term1 AND (term2 OR term3) search.
Phrase - Available. Put quotes around the phrase, such as "New York Times" Ask also supports phrase searching when a dash is used between words with no spaces as in cd-rom-drivers.
Proximity - Available. NEAR operator means within ten words of one another. Can be nested with other tags.
Word Stemming - Available. You cannot use the wild card (*) at the end or in the middle of a word.
Field Search - The following options are available: o Applet: searches for the name of an applet o Domain: specifies the domain extension, such as .com
Ask.com offers a wide range of search features. Most of these options are available in its "Advanced Search" section.
Boolean search - Limited Boolean searching is available. Ask defaults to an AND between search terms and supports the use of - for NOT.
Either OR or ORR can be used for an OR operation, but the operator must be in all upper case. Unfortunately, no nesting is available, so term1 term2 OR term3 is processed as (term1 AND term2) OR term3.
Try the advanced search, but it is still difficult to do a term1 AND (term2 OR term3) search.
Phrase - Available. Put quotes around the phrase, such as "New York Times" Ask also supports phrase searching when a dash is used between words with no spaces as in cd-rom-drivers.
Proximity - Available. NEAR operator means within ten words of one another. Can be nested with other tags.
Word Stemming - Available. You cannot use the wild card (*) at the end or in the middle of a word.
Field Search - The following options are available: o Applet: searches for the name of an applet o Domain: specifies the domain extension, such as .com
o Host: searches for pages within a particular site
o Image: searches for an image name o Link: searches for pages that link to the specified site
o Object: search engines - searches for the name of an object
o Text: excludes Meta tags information
o Title: search in the HTML title only
o URL: searches for sites that have a specified word in the URL
Date Searching - Available under Advanced Search section.
Search within results - Available. This option is offered after each search.
Media Type searching - Available for Images, Music/MP3, and Video.
Language Searching - AltaVista has very extensive language support. It supports around 30 languages.
o Object: search engines - searches for the name of an object
o Text: excludes Meta tags information
o Title: search in the HTML title only
o URL: searches for sites that have a specified word in the URL
Date Searching - Available under Advanced Search section.
Search within results - Available. This option is offered after each search.
Media Type searching - Available for Images, Music/MP3, and Video.
Language Searching - AltaVista has very extensive language support. It supports around 30 languages.
