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Search Tips
Use multiple words
Using multiple words will return more refined results than a single
word. For example, typing "our new products" will return more
relevant results than typing just "products". (Keep in mind
that relevant results are returned even if they don't contain all query
terms.)
Use appropriate capitalization
Capitalize proper nouns, and remember that lower-case words will match
any case. For example, typing "search" will return all documents
containing the words search, Search, and SEARCH. Typing "Search",
however, will instruct the search engine to look only for the capitalized
word.
Use quotation marks
Use quotation marks to find words which must appear adjacent to each
other, for example, "our pledge to you." Otherwise, the search
results will include the word our, pledge, to, and the word you, but
not necessarily in that order. The words may appear anywhere, and in
any order, within the document.
Use plus (+) or minus (-)
Use a plus sign when your search term or phrase must appear in the search
results. Use a minus sign to indicate undesirable term(s). The plus
sign tells the search engine that a certain word or phrase is required
in the search results, and a minus sign indicates that a word or phrase
must be absent in the search results.
Note: A phrase must be contained within quotation marks. Leave no spaces
between the plus or minus sign and the term.
Use wildcards
Wildcard searches can expand the number of matches for a particular
request. The * character is used as the wildcard character.
For instance, searching for wh* will find the words what, why, when,
whether, and any other word that starts with wh.
Searching for *her* will find the words here, whether, together, gathering,
and any other word that contains her anywhere in the word.
Wildcards may be combined with the standard plus (+) and minus (-) modifiers,
quotes for phrases, as well as the field search specifiers.
+wh* -se*ch will find all pages which have a word that starts with
wh and which does not contain a word that starts with se and ends with
ch.
"wh* are" will find the phrases where are, what are,
why are, etc.
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