Internet Basic Search -- AltaVista: AltaVista is one of the Internet's more popular search engines, and one of the reasons for this popularity is the number of tricks you can do in AltaVista's "basic" search mode. Some of the tricks have appeared here already, but here is the mother lode: http://www.altavista.com/av/content/help.htm

If you follow the links in the side-bar on the left hand side of the "basic" search page, you will find lots of even trickier tricks.