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Microcap & Penny Stocks : WCTI (Wordcruncher Internet) Search Engine of the future. -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Paul Oliu who wrote (4823)	3/16/1999 11:12:00 AM
From: Rob29	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 5300

Boolean Searches now supported in the beta! Spyhop Help Overview The Internet is the world's biggest library. Even though the Internet is electronic, it is very similar to the 'bricks and mortar' libraries we are used to. For example, while a physical library consists of books and magazines and maps and pictures, and the Internet is composed of sites, both contain 'content' that is represented in the form of words, images and sounds. Spyhop is designed to help you access the Internet in much the same way as you do when you are working with books and libraries. When people want to find information in books, libraries, or even the Internet, they either know where they are going, or they don't. If you know where you are going in a book or library, you go to a specific library section or to a book or to a page. If you know where you are going on the Internet, you go to a specific site, or to a directory that contains links to sites related to a given topic (like 'photography' or 'California Law' or 'Health and Fitness'). If you don't know where you are going, you search for a word or phrase that represents the idea you are looking for. Spyhop was created to provide users with a tool that can do both of these things. These methods of accessing information are browsing (when you know where you want to go) and searching (when you know what word, phrase or idea you are looking for, but don't know where it is located). Advanced Search with Boolean Symbols If you know exactly what you want, you get better results by entering very specific information into the Search box. Spyhop allows you to use three symbols to better define your search: AND (&) Use the AND modifier (&) to require that words are found in all of the search results. gray & whale returns a listing that contains both words. OR (\) Use the OR modifier (\|) to require that either one word or another are found in all of the search results. gray \| whale returns a listing that contains either word. PHRASE ("word word") Use double quotes ("") to require that a phrase be found in all the search results. "gray whale" returns a listing that contains the phrase.