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[W]ith the query "Bondi Beach" on the Pictures channel, zooming in with Narrow Your Search returns "Map of Bondi Beach" and "Bondi Junction." Alternatively, by zooming out with Expand Your Search, suggestions include "Australian Beaches," "Byron Bay," "Taronga Zoo" and "Places to Visit in Australia" to help users clarify what they are looking for. Additionally, Related Names is able to isolate "Ayers Rock" and "Sydney Tower" as relevant suggestions.
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Many search engines at the time had an "advanced search" feature that let users perform boolean queries, with the AND, NOT, and OR operators. gave you NEAR. This operator located pages on which two words appeared close to one another. You can pay through the nose today for this functionality with the Lexis-Nexis periodical search engine. For a humorous example of the NEAR operator at work, see the chapter "Fun with Lexis-Nexis" in the book "Rush Limbaugh is a Big Fat Idiot" by widely known comedian, politcal commentator, and liberal spokesman Al Franken.
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With a single search, users can now obtain an aggregated list of search results from popular social bookmarking systems such as LookSmart's Furl.net, CiteULike.org, and Zniff.com, a search engine for the Spurl.net. The new search category will be pre-installed in all new downloads and will be available via update for the existing users of FirstStop WebSearch."
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