I was checking out various search engines to find a comparision table on how their searches differ from one another. I came up with no link but with lots of articles on their different engines.
Therefor i decided to compile a chart with the most important search strings for Google, Msn and Yahoo. As you can see in the chart the most common search strings are all the same. (that are the boolean ones, AND, OR, NOT as well as the Exact Term Search “”).
Google and Msn each have some special strings that seems to be unique for their engine, those are:
Msn: contains, emphasise, ip, linkdomain and location
Google: related and daterange
The conclusion is the following:
Yahoo lacks a lot of the advanced search features that Msn and / or Google offers. Msn and Google have each some searches that are unique to their Search engine but are supposedly not used that often by its users.
| String | Msn | Yahoo | |
| All terms(AND) | term1 term2 term3 | term1 term2 term3 | term1 term2 term3 |
| Any term (OR) | term1 OR term2 OR term3 | term1 OR term2 OR term3 | term1 OR term2 OR term3 |
| Exact term (”") | “term1 term2 term3″ | “term1 term2 term3″ | “term1 term2 term3″ |
| Exclude term (NOT) | -term1 | -term1 | -term1 |
| Include term (+) | +term1 | +term1 | +term1 |
| Search domain | site:url | site:url | site:url |
| Exclude domain | -site:url | -site:url | -site:url |
| Titles | intitle:term1 | intitle:term1 | intitle:term1 |
| Url | inurl:term1 | inurl:term1 | inurl:term1 |
| Anchor | inanchor:term1 | inanchor:term1 | - |
| Text | intext:term1 | inbody:term1 | - |
| Contains | - | contains:filetype | - |
| Daterange | daterange:2452389-2452389 | - | - |
| Emphasise | - | prefer:term1 | - |
| Filetype | filetyp:term1 | filetyp:term1 | only in advanced search |
| IP | - | ip:111.111.111.111 | - |
| Language | only in advanced search | language:en | only in advanced search |
| Link | link:url | link:url | link:url |
| Links to domain | - | linkdomain:url | - |
| Location | - | loc:US | only in advanced search |
| Related | related:url | - | - |
reference:
http://googlemyway.com
http://search.msn.com
http://search.yahoo.com/
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daterange:2452389-2452389 not work
Thank you this good reminder. Really I didn’t know about IP command in MSN.