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Altavista

Usage

Use quotation marks around phrases; eg "University of Colombo". Precede words that must appear in the page with + and use - with words that should not.
Advanced query recognises the boolean operators AND, OR, NOT, NEAR

To locate your pages, enter URL:your.web.page

META

Recognises the description and contents tags

Infoseek

Usage

Use quotation marks to designate phrases. Precede words that should appear in the page with +. And use - to precede words that should not appear.
Once you get the initial, use the search in these results feature to refine them.

Click here To find your page

META

description and contents tags are recognised

Hotbot

Usage

The simplest to use, just select search method from the menu and enter the query in the search bar

META

keywords, description, author, and robots tags are recognised

Comments

Has a robot that claims to visit a site every two weeks.
Hotbot results have fewer URL not found errors than most engines

Excite Search

Usage

Excite supports the Boolean operators, AND, OR, AND NOT. Precede a word that must appear + and words that should not with -
If no operators are given excite will fetch documents containing atleast one of the keywords

META

Excite's robot does not honour META Tags

Webcrawler

Tips

Usage

Use AND, OR, NOT, NEAR, ( ) to focus your search

To locate your page click here

META

Webcrawler does not honour META tags, will simply treat them as text

Comments

The relevancy is good. However their robot Spidey seems to be slacking on the job these days. Takes a long time to index submissions.