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Search Engine Reviews: FAST Search and Google - Page 3


© Paula Dragutsky
Page 3

Aug 19, 1999


To the right of the url, a link called cached appears, along with the document's size. If you try to visit a web page, and you get an error message, you can select cached and see a copy of the web page that Google indexed. (This may not be the latest version of the page.)

The red and gray bar to the left of each result is an importance rating. The larger the red part is, the higher the site's importance. (The gray part has no meaning.) Importance of an item is judged by the number and quality of the sites linking to it. If you click on this bar, you're presented with a list of sites that have linked to that item.

Special Features

Google has three special features, but you have to look closely to find them. Underneath the main search box there's a link called More Google This takes you to the More Google page which has links to various kinds of information about Google. In the lower middle of the page, there are links to Special Searches.

One of these is Government Search. By selecting it, you can search government-hosted web pages. Another is Linux Search where you can search Linux related pages. In addition, there's Stanford Search which lets you search Stanford University-related and hosted pages.

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Here's the follow-up discussion on this article: View all related messages
3.   Aug 25, 2000 2:56 PM
Hi -

Thanks for your comments.

Since my article was published last August, FAST has greatly improved its search capability by adding the Advanced Search mode.

David - I agree both Northern L ...

-- posted by PaulaD_3
2.   Aug 5, 2000 8:04 PM
Hi Paula,

Nice to see that you are still producing quality reviews. Thank you.

Fast Search is the only other (general) search engine I use after Northern Light - which still remains my search en ...

-- posted by David_Poulson
1.   Aug 5, 2000 4:13 PM
Fast Search is even better since they have updated it to include an advanced search feature. I use it frequently and I find the "must include in text" feature very useful. ...

-- posted by pecanfudge



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