Lycos UK Q-card

American and Asian Lycos is now using the Fast search engine . The syntax rules given on this page no longer apply. Go to Lycos Help for information on how to use Fasts's menu based search system.

This card continues to be relevant for the European versions of Lycos.

Open Lycos Pro search page in separate frame or in separate window.

Links to advanced searching	Lycos UK Lycos and AOL Netfind, in UK and Germany, are powered by Lycos. The same rules should apply to all of them.
Home page	lycospro.lycos.com
Will search in…	Open directory Lycos search engine and more
Default search	AND
Case sensitive	No
Natural language queries	Choose Natural Language Query from menu
Spell check	No
Translates pages into another language	No
SYNTAX	Lycos UK
Find pages that have one or more of these words	dog OR cat or dog \| cat or use advanced menu
Find pages that contain all these words	dog cat or +dog +cat or dog AND cat or dog & cat
Find pages that contain the first, but not the last, word	dog -cat or dog NOT cat or dog ! cat
Find pages that contain the following exact phrase	"raining cats and dogs" or use advanced menu
Find pages that contain these words in near proximity of each other	dog NEAR cat (less than 25 words apart. The distance in no. of words may be specified: dog NEAR/5 cat). dog ADJ cat (words adjacent to each other in any order) dog FAR cat (more than 25 words apart. The distance in no. Of words may be specified: dog FAR/5 cat) or use advanced menu
Find pages that contain words that starts with the following letters (joker-signs, truncation, wildcard)	No
Nesting (Use of parentheses)	Kennedy AND (Robert OR John) You can use ( ), [ ], < >
FIELD SEARCH	Lycos UK
Find pages that have the following http-address (or parts of address)	Use advanced menu
Find pages under the following domain	Use advanced menu
Find pages that contain images with names that contains the following word	Use advanced menu
Find pages that contain links to the following address	No
Find pages that contain the follwing word in the title	Use advanced menu
Find pages that contain the following text anywhere in the HTML-code	No
Find pages written in a particular language	Use advanced menu
Find pages made in the following time period	No
FIELD SEARCH USENET NEWSGROUPS	Lycos UK
Find this newsgroup	No
Find this text in the subject field of newsgroup messages	No
Find messages that are written by the following	No
Find messages that are dated…	No
More information on advanced searching	Lycos Pro Search Tips

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