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General
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Viv�simo is a new generation of meta-search engine, it searches
AltaVista, BBC, Dogpile, GigaBlast, LII, LookSmart, Lycos, MSN, Netscape Overture, Vizzavi, Voila, Yahoo
and some special news search engines like CNN, BBCNews, NYTimes, SFGate, Wired and WorldNews.
You can choose a preselected set of engines in the drop down menu.
Viv�simo clusters listings covering similar topics. You can scroll through these on the main part of the page or
click on the handy folders on the left hand side of the page. This
additional organization makes it easier to navigate the search results and find what you are looking for more quickly.
Viv�simo only queries the search engines that support your chosen syntax (Check
which engines have been queried by clicking on the "Details" link at the top of the results page.)
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Case Sensitive
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No.
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Phrase searching
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Enclose the phrase in quotation marks " ", e.g. "like this phrase"
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To require
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Use + immediately before a word, e.g. hyperactivity +children
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To exclude
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Use - immediately before a word, e.g. cats -dogs
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Boolean logic
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AND: default, assumed between words, e.g. hyperactivity children =
hyperactivity AND children.
OR: between words, e.g. cats OR dogs.
NEAR: use NEAR between words, this ensures that both words are close to each
other.
AND NOT, NOT: to Excludes documents containing the specified word or phrase.
You can use parenthesis (), e.g. adopt and (beagle or terrier).
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Wildcards
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No.
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Sub-searching
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No.
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Field searching
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Note: Do not put a space before or after
the colon.
domain:domainname Finds pages within the specified domain, e.g. domain:fr
finds pages from France, domain:edu finds pages from educational sites.
host:�or�site:hostname Finds pages on a specific host, e.g. host:yahoo.com would find pages on whose host name (the first part
of the URL) contains yahoo.com (like www.yahoo.com, infos.yahoo.com.uk,
etc...).
image:filename Finds pages with images having a
specific filename, e.g. image:france finds pages with images having
names containing the word france.
link:URLtext Finds pages with a link to a page
with the specified URL text, e.g. link:vivisimo.com finds all pages
linking to vivisimo.com.
linktext:text Finds pages that contain the
specified word or phrase in the text of a hyperlink, e.g. linktext:review
+films would find pages with review in a link and with the word films in the
content of the page.
related:URLtext
Finds pages similar to or related to
the specified URL, e.g. related:www.travel.com.uk finds
travel sites in United Kingdom.
text:text Finds pages that contain the
specified text in any part of the page other than an image tag, link, or URL.
title:text Finds pages that contain the
specified word or phrase in the page title (which appears in the title bar of
most browsers).
url:text Finds pages with a specific word or
phrase anywhere in the URL, e.g. url:video finds all pages on all
servers that have the word video anywhere in the host name, path, or filename.
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