The best way to get started is to just enter a search term in the above box. The searches executed are diverse enough to produce decent results even on the simpliest of queries because we search everything from blogs to encyclopedias and also include all 4 major search engines.

If you are interested in refining your searches to produce ghetto fabulous results keep the below tips in mind while thinking how to QueryThe.net.

Novice Searching Advise

To determine how many external links you have pointing to your web page (works for Yahoo and MSN only). . .
link:http://www.domain.com -site:http://www.domain.com (for Google type link:http://www.domain.com)

To find an exact match use "Quotation Marks" . . .
"Bill Gates" Microsoft blog

-word means the results cannot contain this word, conversely,
+word means the results must include this word though this operator is assumed by default.

To search for a specific filetype try . . .
filetype:PDF (Yahoo uses something different but we've fixed that here. This would be beneficial if you were looking for a mailing list of doctors. A search like . . . +M.D. "New York, NY" filetype:XLS . . . might yeild some excellent results in only a moment of searching. This is not a perfect science but it works.

Use "OR" when either word could work in the search . . .
"Michael Jordan" Tarheels OR Bulls

To see how many pages of your site has been indexed from the search engines . . . site:domain.com
If you are doing research and can only cite web sites from an .edu domain use . . . thesis phrase site:edu

Checking out the competition

Most people who are shooting to rank for a search term will put all keywords in the title of the desired page. . .
intitle:keywords in any order || intitle:"ordered keyword phrase"

Similarly, people will lease out a domain name with the search term inside. To find these people. . .
inurl:keywords

Here is something useful. . .
"my keyword phrase" -site:mysite.com
After running that query, export your results to a CSV and open in excel to see the most prominent links going to your competitors. This spreadseet will have SERPs listed for 3 major engines.

Well, we certainly are not a search engine or directory, though we function like both. Executing a successful search engine takes planning, dedication and tons of capital, we have none of that stuff. What we do have is a roll of duct tape and a few good ideas. Our goal is to tie all the best search resources together and make the whole more useful than the individual parts.

Finding the best pages on the internet must be a daunting task, I most definitly do not want that job. QueryThe.net has a spider but has absolutely no intentions of ever sending him out into the nothingness that has become the internet. Thankfully we don't have to do that. Corporate America has done the hard work of gathering all the information. It is up to us to use it efficiently.

When you approach your friendly neighorhood search engine for insight to your latest troubles what you are actually getting is a narrow minded, dogmatic answer to your question. They might be right, but there also might be a quicker, easier answer out there waiting for you.

This is where QueryThe.net steps in and proves it's worth. Running a search on QueryThe.net actually searches the intneret's most trusted names in news & information. Companies like Google, Wikipedia, Yahoo, MSN and ASK sort through all the information and we roll it up and deliver it right to your screen in seconds.

Why do search engines prosper so? Because they are absolutely necessary to the internet. They sift and search and store and sort, churning out the best results they possibly can. Why do we think we can achieve this process better than the big boys? Easy, because we don't rely on one company's answer as absolute and search power is definitly in numbers.

Many times I have hunted google for 10 minutes searching frantically for a certain something only to switch to MSN to find it instantly. This is the advantage of a meta search, you get to listen to all the trusted sources the first time so there will be now more wasted surfing.

I will admit that the actual searching process if faster when searching directly at the engine of your choice, but only marginally. If Google returns your query in .33 seconds and it takes us 6.5 seconds then they would win the first leg of the race hands down. The benefit of a QueryThe.net search is when you don't find what you are looking for immediatly and have to refine your Google search to produce better results. When you search with us, fruitless results are a thing of the past. Shit, we're so confident in our results that we don't even offer a page 2 of your search results page. Feel that cool breeze on your back, you just got some of your productivity back :]