Tips for Searching
At its simplest, a query can be just a word or a phrase. But with the
tips on this page, you can modify your query to give you more useful
results.
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Use AND to find both words. For example: house
and senate will find only pages that have both senate and
house |
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Use OR to find all instances of either one word or another, for
example: abbott or costello This query finds all pages that
mention Abbott or Costello or both. |
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Use NEAR to find words close to each other. For example, both
system and manager and system near manager look
for the words system and manager on the same page. If you use
NEAR, the returned pages are ranked in order of proximity, so the first
items on the list will have the words closer together than items lower on the
list. |
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Use AND NOT to exclude certain text from your search. For example,
if you want to find all instances of surfing but not surfing the
Net, search for surfing and not the Net |
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Use * to look for words that start the same. For example,
key* will find key, keying, keyhole,
keyboard, and so on. |
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Use ** to search for all forms of a word. For example,
sink** will find sink, sinking, sank, and
sunk. |
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Put quotation marks around phrases if you want the search engine to take
them literally. For instance, "Ways and Means" would
find the phrase ways and means. Ways and Means (without
the quotes) would produce a list of pages that have both means and
ways, but not necessarily in the same phrase. |
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