Web Search Engines "Made Simple" -Reply

[Bill Thayer]

> Along similar lines, has anyone been able to view all of the results from
> a search (over 500 hits)?

I occasionally go past 500 hits on some common term, out of curiosity; in
Hotbot and Altavista, this works.
  OTOH the usual best tactic is to narrow your search -


> Is this common with all search engines?

Dunno, but Excite is extremely quirky; not the best engine to be using!



> Any ideas?

If for some reason you want to extend a search past the apparent limit, try
locating the number of the starting term in the long string forming the
URL; and incrementing it manually. This works with Altavista and Hotbot and
several others (possibly including Excite; engines I use less frequently,
at any rate, so I don't remember which).

With Altavista, although you can't search for something like "Roman" (too
many), you *can* enter it in the "WITH" space and get useful results.



Bill Thayer

RomanSites
http://www.ukans.edu/history/index/europe/ancient_rome/E/Roman/RomanSites*