Hooray, Another Web Engine Begins Providing Access To PDF

[gprice]

Hello from D.C.

AllTheWeb has begun to provide access to .pdf material.
Since 2/2001 Google has been the only engine providing access to this 
material.

Right now .pdf results are included in all results sets where appropriate. 
No specific syntax that limits to document format is currently available. 
However, using the advanced interface and limiting to "must include" term, 
.pdf, in the url is a way to do some limiting.

For example:
Try a search for the terms librarian AND database that was constructed 
using the advanced search (http://www.alltheweb.com/advanced)
page and filtering the term .pdf so it's a "must include" in the url.



You can also limit by using the syntax, url.all:pdf , in the any search box.
For example:
A search for the phrase "public television" ( 
http://www.alltheweb.com/search?cat=web&cs=utf-8&l=any&q=url.all%3Apdf+%E2%80%9Cpublic+television%E2%80%9D+)
limited to documents with .pdf in the url. In most cases, documents are 
labeled as .pdf next to the title line on the results page.

More details about this and other ATW changes in the next week or so.

cheers,
gary




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Gary D. Price, MLIS
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