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Highway 61 sends your query simultaneously to Yahoo, AltaVista, Lycos, Webcrawler, Infoseek, and Excite. The results are ranked according to how many of those sites found a given reference, and how those sites ranked it. This is my version of a form © 1996, 1997 by Virtual Mirror, provider of several useful web sites. Clicking [Search] will take you to their site.

Search for:
   

Options:
                    Boolean:   OR   AND

            Speed vs. thoroughness:

                  How many hits?   35 to 75   60 to 125

            List Yahoo's categories?

Notes:
Time-outs. Some sites may time out before returning their results, especially if you give priority to speed over thoroughness.

Booleans. Each of the sites treats your query differently. Generally, multiple words are treated as a boolean OR, meaning results may contain any one of your search terms. If you only want results that contain all of your search terms, use boolean AND. This is the same as putting a + in front of each word. With Boolean OR, you can still place a + in front of one or more words. Yahoo always treats multiple words as a Boolean AND, meaning all search terms must appear in any matches.

Inspiring quotes. If you use Netscape Navigator, Highway 61 entertains you while it searches.

Cookies. If you permit cookies, your search preferences are saved for the next search.

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