Find the pages on Hippy's Happy Home Pages that are of interest to you by
entering words or phrases, which relate to the subject matter you are
looking for, in the input box above and click on the Search Now
button.
Hippy's happy Home Pages are indexed by
FreeFind ( a free search engine
specifically for home page use ) which will return results similar to the
major web-based search engines, but only for this site. If you wish to use
search this way, please select the Search using FreeFind Search Engine
option.If you do not select this option, the site will be searched using the Hippy's
Happy Search Engine; a Search Engine specially developed by the Happy Hippy.
Hippy's Happy Search Engine uses a technique know as
SimText reduction to do
an intelligent pattern match with the contents of each page so you do not
need to worry about the exact spelling of the words or phrase; Company
and Companies, Dwarves and Dwarf, Colour and
Color are treated as the same words.
This does mean that it is quite common to find pages identified that do not
not match the search criteria exactly; for example,
Astra and
Starr are treated
as the same word so return the same pages ( a lot of which don't relate
to either of the subject we're looking for ).
The results delivered are no worse than from other, more exacting, stringent
search engines. The more words you use, to identify the subject matter you are
interested in, the closer the returned results will meet your request; for
example,
Vauxhall Astra
or
The Starr Report - Bill Clinton and Monica Lewinsky.
Note that the Happy Hippy's Search Engine will only search pages held
on his site and not those on the rest of the internet.If you are interested; you can examine the
Index Structure ( but click
here
if your browser can display XML content automatically, ie IE5 ) and the
Index Contents of the database which is
used to do the search, however, it does take a fairly long time to process the
complete index for display.
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