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31 August 2001 07:02 PM
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Raging Search

With its Raging Search, AltaVista has gone back to basics--no bells, no whistles, just unbridled power. Raging Search is for those who like the flexibility and advanced capabilities of AltaVista but don't need portal elements such as news feeds and shopping services. Raging Search's strength is its advanced search capabilities. It supports field searching, Boolean queries, wildcards, and date searching. Options include adding field or date searching boxes to search pages, indicating how many hits to display per page, and specifying what information to display.

Raging Search uses the same index as AltaVista, but it delivers slightly different results. As with AltaVista, it tends to work better with very specific searches, such as deep blue +chess, (looking for information about ibm's chess supercomputer) than with more general queries. Raging Search also performed respectably when we targeted specific sites, such as International Telecommunications Union. Even with very focused searches, however, Raging Search can be ragged. Unfortunately, it shares AltaVista's tendency to return irrelevant links where content has changed since the page was last crawled.

Raging Search

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Talkback 1 comments

    Matilda Keith -- 04/01/06 (in reply to #120126443)

    The Correct address for Matilda is
    http://www.matildasearch.com
    Is theee any chance you coulds replace your content with a simple link?
    Keith

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