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Search.com Help
General Information
What's new about Search.com?
How does Search.com work?
How do I send feedback?
How do I submit my site?
Basic searching
Where do I start?
Can I search in specific categories?
Understanding search results
Can I sort my results?
Advanced Search Tips
How do I improve my results?
Can I customize my metasearch?
Advanced search tips
Faster Access
How do I make Search.com my home page?
How do I bookmark Search.com?
- What is new about Search.com?
- Search.com now uses the metasearch technology of SavvySearch to give
you the most comprehensive search results on the Internet. Now you only
have to search once for results from over 700 search engines,
Web directories, auctions, storefronts, news sources, discussion groups,
reference sites, and more. In addition, Search.com's metasearch channels
give you the power to get specialized results from dozens of search
engines dedicated to popular topics, like Music
or Travel.
We've also given Search.com a makeover, making it more streamlined
and easier to navigate, so you can focus on finding information —
not getting lost in it.
- How does Search.com work?
- Search.com sends your search queries to several search engines at
one time and integrates the results into one list. That means you don't
have to spend time going to each individual site to search — you
can get all the Web's top results at once from Search.com
- How do I send feedback?
- We welcome your questions, comments, and suggestions about the new
Search.com — drop us a line at feedback@search.com.
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- How do I submit
my site?
- Optimize your web site
for spiders and then submit it to 18 major search engines and
directories with the Search.com Submission
Guide. For a limited time, you can register your site with 14
major search engines at once via SavvySubmit.
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- Where do I start?
- If you're looking for general information and resources, the best
place to start is the main search box at http://www.search.com/. Just enter your
query (e.g. pokemon) and press the Search button. Your results
will include links to relevant categories in Web directories (like Yahoo!
or About) as well as to Web pages, headlines, and prices on related
products.
- Can I search in specific categories?
- Of course — just choose a metasearch channel from our main
page. Each of our channels searches specialized engines related
to that particular topic or genre. For example, our Music
channel gives you the option to search for MP3s, lyrics, reviews, prices,
software, concert tickets, and more. You can select as many categories
as you like on a particular channel. The more checkboxes you select,
the more engines we search.
- Understanding search results
- At the top of search results pages, you'll see a list of the sites
we searched to get your results. (A green bullet means we successfully
contacted the site; a gray bullet means we did not get a response in
time.) Below that list your results appear, organized into groups of
similar information. For example, if you do a search on earthquakes,
you'll see links to the earthquake category pages found on human-built
Web guides like Yahoo! and Snap under the heading Directories,
earthquake sites under Web Pages, earthquake news under Headlines,
and prices on earthquake books, videos, and other products under Latest
Prices.
If you'd like more results within a certain grouping — Web pages,
for example — just click the link that says See more Web pages
results. On that page, your results will be grouped according to
which site they came from. If you want to see more results from a particular
site, click the link that says See all matching results from
the site you're interested in. And if you didn't find what you were
looking for, you can always perform another search from the search box
at the bottom of the page, or choose another channel to search from.
Results you get on our search channels are organized similarly, based
on which checkboxes you select before you perform your search.
- Can I sort my results?
- When you see Sort by: Source | Relevance | Date at the top
of the results listing, you can click on these links to sort the results
again. Usually, your results will be sorted by Source, which means they
will be grouped based on the site we got them from. If you click on
Relevance, you'll see the links that show up in the most search engines
at the top. The link to sort by Date is not available in every channel,
but when you do see it, you can click to sort your results with the
most recent articles or news stories at the top.
- How do I improve my results?
- There are a few ways you can improve your results:
1. double check your spelling
2. add words to your query if the results are too broad
3. subtract words from your query if the results are too narrow
4. try searching in a particular channel for more focused results
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- Advanced search tips
- Some engines that Search.com queries support the following advanced
search options:
• double-quoted phrases: " " (e.g., "john lennon" not
john lennon)
• enforced term operators: +/- (e.g., music +"john lennon" -beatles)
• boolean language: and, or, not (e.g. music and "john lennon" and
not beatles)
You may improve your results through these advanced search techniques,
but many engines do not support these options, so sometimes your results
may appear to be exactly the same as they would be without them. Try
out a few different approaches and see what works best for you.
How do I make Search.com my home page?
If you use the Internet for research, then
Search.com is a great place to start. You can make Search.com your default
home page so that each time you start your web browser, Search.com is
at your beck and call. Here's how:
Netscape users: Edit menu > Preferences
> Navigator > Use Current Page
Internet Explorer users: Tools menu > Internet Options >
General > Use current
Lynx users: Start Lynx with the command:
lynx -homepage=http://www.search.com
How do I bookmark
Search.com?
Netscape users: Communicator menu
> Bookmarks > Add Bookmark
Internet Explorer users: Favorites menu > Add to Favorites
Lynx users: Just press the 'a' key on your keyboard to add a
bookmark.
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