A good tip is when you have clicked on one of the links, then just push on the back button (you're browsers of corse) and you will automatically go up to the beginning of this page ! i wish you good luck with you're future searchs; Danne ©.
Ps: I would be very happy if you checked my spelling and sends me an e-mail if there is something wrong in this text.
If you want to searcg for; let us say nice cars, then you maybe type nice cars, and then push the search button, but then you will get all of the hits om both nice and cars ! What you have to do, so that altavista knows that you're searching for both nice AND cars is to put the text between two "", example: "nice cars", now Altavista know that the two words (can be as many as you want) you're searching for should be together;in a sentence.
Let us say that you, for an example wants to search for Pamela Anderson, you want to haw both Pamela and Anderson in yore search, or else you'll get hits on both Pamela and Andersson, right... Ok, so what you should do is that you placed a + between the two words (pamela +andersson know you will only score on Pamela Anderson ! The same thing when you uses the - , but then you don't want to includ the words after the -. For example, if you don't wan't to search for pamela andersson, and want's to search for all the pamelas on internet but pamela anderson (bad example but ok...) then you will type: pamela-anderson If you want to get as many hits as many, or if you don't know the whole word youre searching for, then you can use: *. It is exactly as in DOS, it substitutes a word, for example: pamela.* can be both Pamela.Anderson and Pamela.Collins !
If you want's to search for the text in a page, could be a book recesion or what ever you're looking for, then you can search for the text. For example, you want's to find a site with stocks, then you could search for: text:ericsson b and then you will get hits on sites with information about the ericsson b stocks !
If you want to search for a homepage title, then just type title:something. This could be useful, becasue the homepage title tells you about what the page contains.
We all need pictures for something, sometimes. I need them for my babe collection and for school, you maybe needs a picture for you're school asignment, or something like that,or if you're a collector like me (if a only had more hard drive !)... Well back to the thing, to search for a picture, just type: image:something. This can also be useful if you have a picture, but don't remember the URL.
If you want to search for a page that have links to pamela, or perhaps if somebody has made a link for you're site, then just simply type : link:http://some-url.domain/something.../
This can be very useful ! If you for an exeampel have seen a cool adress in a magazine, but only remembers a little part of it, then just simply arite: url: something Try to search for: url:index.htm Many hits, or...
If you know just a little bit of html, then you know that within the a href="http://www. something.domain/" there is the adress of the linked page. If you for an example wants to know wich pages that have linked youre page, then just simply type:anchor:http://youre homepage adress.domain/ and then you will see wich homepage(s) that links to youre...
With Java, you can make kany fun things.... Try and search for this: applet:nervoustext And see were altavista takes you...
Active x is microsofts answer to java. Just type object:Marquee and let altavista do the rest...
Just like cars (reg. plates), internet also has a way to make shore where a server is. Just type:domain:se and you will find all of the swedish servers... many, ha ???
By: Danne 97'©