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SITE SEARCH HELP
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Site Search Help:
To find information about a topic, simply type in a few keywords.
The more detailed your query is, the more relevant your results will be.
By default your query is NOT case sensitive when entered in lower case. If you wish to enter a case sensitive search query, enter your search term with UPPER and lower case letters and your query will treated as case sensitive.
Our search engine also comes with some advanced capabilities
to help you find exactly what you're looking for. All operators below can be mixed and matched. These capabilities are best shown with a few examples:
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Site Search Engine Syntax
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Description of Syntax Usage |
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If no special operator is used (as shown below), you are sending the most basic query. This query will match all documents that contain any of the words. Example:
search engine secrets
will return results for all pages that contain any of these words (wildcards are also acceptable - see below). |
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Put a plus sign (+) in front of a word that must be found in the documents. Example:
+search +engine +secrets
will return results for all pages that contain all these words (wildcards are also acceptable - see below). |
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Put a minus sign (-) in front of words that you want to reject. For example, the query:
+search +engine -secrets
will return results for all documents that contain search and engine, but will reject the document if secrets was found (wildcards are also acceptable - see below). |
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Use double quotation marks (") for words that must appear together. Multiple phrases may be searched for in the same query. For example, the query:
+"banner advertising" +"java applets"
will match documents containing both phrases somewhere within the document (wildcards are also acceptable - see below). |
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Put an asterisk (*) anywhere you wish to use wildcards. This wildcard will help match plurals and other word combinations. Your search term using wildcards MUST contain at least 4 characters or your term will be ignored.
The asterisk is a powerful search tool, but it does have some limitations. It cannot span words - that is, the query "search*engine*secrets" would not match "search engine secrets". The asterisk can represent at most four characters. For example:
sec*
this term will be ignored because it does not contain at least 4 characters.
sec*t
will match documents that contain: secret, sect, secant and probably a few others, but will not match the plural secrets.
sec*t*
will match documents that contain: secret, secrets, secretion, sect, secant and probably a few other words you haven't thought of.
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