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[Re: Lexis Costs Skyrocket]

To: CEDA-L <CEDA-L@cornell.edu>
Subject: [Re: Lexis Costs Skyrocket]
From: Randal Pittelli <pittelli@ehsct7.envmed.rochester.edu>
Date: Fri, 07 Mar 1997 11:37:06 -0500
Organization: University of Rochester
Reply-to: pittelli@ehsct7.envmed.rochester.edu

Alan Dove wrote:
...
> 
> 3) Because AltaVista does not accept logical operators in advanced
> combinations, 

Not quite true, Alan. I found the 'Simple' search pretty lame, for this
reason, but the
'Advanced' search does allow logicals and more specialized operators:

http://altavista.digital.com/cgi-bin/query?pg=aq&what=web

...with a synopsis of the operators at our debate resource site (but
more in depth at AltaVista's own Help page):
http://128.151.21.16:8000/wwwrlp/debate/search1.htm

After trying the Advanced search, I never went back. Note also that the
Advanced operators are more intuitive, and similar to Infoseek Ultra's
(also described at latter site).

Alas, I disagree with you on something!!
-Randy


>try phrasing your search as specifically as possible.  You
> will generally get over 5,000 hits, so don't worry about your search being
> too narrow.  Enclose phrases in quotes if you want to find the exact
> phrase, e..g. "nuclear winter" will get pages that contain those two words
> in exactly that relation, whereas nuclear winter (no quotes) will find all
> pages containing either word anywhere.  The first will return a much more
> specific set than the second, obviously.  "nuclear winter" -sagan will get
> all pages about nuclear winter that do NOT mention Carl Sagan.  Plan to
> search with several phrases and rearrangements - your browser will
> highlight sites you've already visited in a different color, so you won't
> have to worry about the duplications.
> 

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