The Little Ankaboot
an Islamic Mini-Search Engine

Search Rules This search engine helps you find documents on this website and related sites. Here's how it works: you tell the search service what you're looking for by typing in keywords, phrases, or questions in the search box. The search service responds by giving you a list of all the Web pages in our index relating to those topics. Insha'Allah, the most relevant content will appear at the top of your results. How To Use: Type your keywords in the search box. Press the Search button to start your search. Here's an example: Type sincerity in the search box. Press the Search button or press the Enter key. The Results page will show you numerous pages for the word sincerity. Now select Edit, Find from the top menu bar of your browser. Type in your search word - sincerity. This will take you directly to the ayat (verse) with the search word. Tip: Don't worry if you find a large number of results. In fact, use more than a couple of words when searching. Even though the number of results will be large, the most relevant content will always appear at the top of the result pages. More Basics - An Overview Here's a quick overview of the rest of our Basic Help. Just click on the links to jump to these sections. What is an 'Index'? What is a word? What is a phrase? Simple Tips for More Exact Searches Fancy Features for Typical Searches

What is an Index? Webster's dictionary describes an "index" as a sequential arrangement of material. Our index is a large, growing, organized collection of Web pages and discussion group pages from around the world. The 'index' becomes larger every day as people send us the addresses for new Web pages. We also have technology that crawls the Web looking for links to new pages. When you use our search service, you search the entire collection using keywords or phrases.

What is a word? When searching, think of a word as a combination of letters and numbers. The search service needs to know how to separate words and numbers to find exactly what you want on the Internet. You can separate words using white space and tabs.

What is a phrase? You can link words and numbers together into phrases if you want specific words or numbers to appear together in your result pages. If you want to find an exact phrase, use "double quotation marks" around the phrase when you enter words in the search box. Example #1: To find articles about the Islamic perspective of The Nation of Islam, type "Nation of Islam" in the search box, with the quotation marks around it. This specifies that you want to find those words in that order only. You can also create phrases using punctuation or special characters such as dashes, underscore lines, commas, slashes, or dots. Example #2: Try searching for 1-800-999-9999 instead of 1 800 999 9999. The dashes link the numbers together as a phrase.

Simple Tips for More Exact Searches All searches are case insensitive and accent insensitive. Searching for "Fur" will match the lowercase "fur", uppercase "FUR", and German "für". Including or excluding words: To make sure that a specific word is always included in your search topic, place the plus (+) symbol before the key word in the search box. To make sure that a specific word is always excluded from your search topic, place a minus (-) sign before the keyword in the search box. Example: To find recipes for cookies with oatmeal but without raisins, try recipe cookie +oatmeal -raisin. Expand your search using wildcards (*): By typing an * at the end of a keyword, you can search for the word with multiple endings. Example: Try sneez*, to find sneezing, sneeze, and sneezer.

Fancy Features for Typical Searches You can search more than just text. Here are all of the other ways you can search on the net:
link:address	Finds pages that link to the specified address, or a substring of it. Use link:microsoft.com to find all pages linking to Microsoft sites. Note: this feature is not implemented on all search engines.
text:text	Finds pages that contain the specified text in any part of the page other than an image tag, link, or URL. The search text:cow9 would find all pages with the term cow9 in them.
title:text	Finds pages that contain the specified word or phrase in the page title (which appears in the title bar of most browsers). The search title:Elvis would find pages with Elvis in the title.
url:text	Finds pages with a specific word or phrase in the URL. Use url:altavista to find all pages on all servers that have the word altavista in the host name, path, or filename - the complete URL, in other words.

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