The Solution...

• KWiCFinder conducts your online searches without supervision
• It returns Key Word in Context abstracts highlighting your search terms so you can evaluate the usefulness of documents matching your query
• Search reports are highly interactive [details]
• Numerous enhancements permit more finely-targeted searches than typical web search engines

The Problems...

• So many hits... How can you tell which are relevant?

  Eliminate most irrelevant hits with highly-specific searches, then reject unwanted matches (retrieved and analyzed automatically) based on your assessment of key search terms in context

• Wildcards are too wild  

  "Tamecards" offer powerful generality without matching too much

• "Near" is often too far or too vague

  Specify how far, and whether before or after as required

• Retrieving pages which match your query seems to take forever

  KWiCFinder works in the background, while you are doing something else.  It can save all downloaded documents matching your query in HTML (web) or text form for later reference