HotBot Search Tips
- Initial screen allows you to choose whether terms should be handled
as individual words, as a phrase, as a person's name or searched as a
URL (searches for documents that contain that URL in a link or in the
document--does not search for the URL in the address).
- Use + before a term to be sure it is present in the documents
retrieved. Use - before a term to be sure a term is not present in the
documents retrieved.
- An Expert mode allows many additional features for advanced queries.
- Searches can be limited to the recency of the documents, or when they
were added to the system.
- Documents can be searched by media type, for example, Java, VRML,
Shockwave)