Multi-Engine Search Information

Multi-Engine Searching at
CalamityVille is done via Dogpile.

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Search Type	Text to Search For	Search Engines Used
The Web:	Text found on the Web.	Yahoo!, Lycos' A2Z, Excite Guide, GoTo.com, PlanetSearch, Thunderstone, What U Seek, Magellan, Lycos, WebCrawler, InfoSeek, Excite & AltaVista.
Usenet:	Text found in Usenet Newsgroups.	Reference, Dejanews, AltaVista and Dejanews' old Database.
File Sites:	Text found in file names or descriptions. Only first word will be used in File Site searches.	Filez and FAST FTP Search.
Stock Quotes:	Ticker Symbol or Company Name.	Quoteserver.com
Biz News:	Text found in Business News.	Africa News , Agence France , M2 Airlines, Asiainfo, Business Wire, Canadian Corp, Content Factory, Fednet, Infolatina, Inter Press, Interactive Sports, Itar-Tass, M2, Phillips, PR News, PIO, Resource News, SABI, UPI, UPI, US Newswire, Washington Tech, WENN, Xinhua.
Newswires:	Text found in News reports.	Yahoo News Headlines, Excite News and Infoseek NewsWires.
Weather:	Any City, State or Zipcode in the world.	Weather Underground.

What is Allowed?

You may use the proximity and Boolean operators AND, OR, NEAR, and NOT to combine words and phrases. NEAR will be substituted with AND for those engines which do not support its use. If you use NEAR the engines which support its use will be searched first. NOT and the following word will be deleted if the engine does not support its use.
OR is not fully supported since not all the search engines included support a mixed use of AND and OR.
Using no connector, AND will be assumed. Thus the search:
- Free and Mac and Software
  and
- Free Mac Software
  are the same.
You may also use quotes and parentheses. However note that not all search engines support their use. For those which do not support their use, they will automatically be removed.
The File Site (FTP) search engines only take one word as the query (i.e. a file name or part of a file name) Make sure that the first word in your query is the file name you want to find. You may still add other search terms if you also are searching the web or usenet also.

What will Happen when I Press "Search"?

Dogpile searches three search engines at a time. The requests are put out in parallel and are displayed as they come back.
If Dogpile does not get at least 10 documents matching your query request it will automatically move to the next three and so on until all are searched or until 10 matches are found.
If Dogpile does find 10 or more matches you still can go to the next set of search engines by pressing on the button at the bottom of the page.
Engines have generally been placed in order from the very general index search (where a general search like "usenet culture" will not turn up 30000 pages) to the very specific super-engine (which will find too much if your search is not narrow). This means that you can put in as much or as little detail about what it is you want to find and not be disappointed with too few matches (since Dogpile automatically finds more documents from larger databases if less than ten are found) nor be overwhelmed when looking for information on a general topic (since the index search engines like Yahoo are catagorized into general subject headings).
Attempts have been made to make it easy to follow up on the query sent to each search engine. The query sent to the search engine is printed and (in most cases) is linked to the page generating the results. Also if the search engine found more than the maximum displayable matches (e.g. 10 matches), a link to the next 10 should also be present (where supported).
Please remember that search engines change their format all the time. Thus Dogpile is guaranteed NOT to work 100% of the time with 100% of the engines.

If you still do not understand any of this, don't worry. Just try it and see what happens.