(http://www.infoseek.com)
Summary of Features
| Coverage | Infoseek has more databases or
collections available to the searcher than any other
single search engine. They can be divided into two types
of resources: Searchable Collections and Browseable
Collections. The Searchable Collections include: 1- Infoseek Search (the general index to pages and sites on the Web); 2 - Company information (11,000 companies); 3 - Imageseek (index of images on the Web); 4 - News Center (a collection of sources of news that includes: Newswire--Reuters, BusinessWire, PR Newswire; Premier News and the Industry News Collection); 5 - Usenet News; 6 - Yellow pages (Business listings provided by Big Yellow); 7- White Pages (over 70 million residential listings) 8 - E-mail addresses (over 12 million) The Browseable Collections comprise: 1- Infoseek Directory (over 500,000 selected Web pages); 2 - Reference (a set of reference sources); 3 - Infoseek Investor (Stock quotes and other stock market information and tools) |
| Size of index | Over 50 million of URLs |
| Extent of indexing | Full-text minus stop words |
| Levels of searching | 1 level |
| Implied Boolean | YES. The implied Boolean connector is OR |
| Simple Boolean | YES, with limitations. The simple Boolean connectors YES and NOT are replaced by the symbols + and -. The + symbol performs the function of AND if both words entered are preceded by it. The symbol - functions as the connector NOT |
| Proximity searching | NO |
| Nesting (parenthesis for complex searches) | NO |
| Field searching | YES. Perform searches by title, URL, site, link (pages with specific links on them), |
| Wildcards & truncation | NO right hand truncation. However, Infoseek automatically searches for related words. For example: a search for the word feminism retrieves feminist as well. |
| Capitalization recognition | YES |