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 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 expand the focus of your query
to give you more complete results. These tips will get you started with
basic query language.
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Search with the keyword NEAR, rather
than AND, for words close to each other. For
example, both of these queries, system and manager
and system near manager, look for the words system
and manager on the same page. But with NEAR,
the returned pages are ranked in order of proximity: The closer
together the words are, the higher the rank of that page.
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Refine your queries with the AND NOT
keywords to exclude certain text from your search. For example, if
you want to find all instances of surfing but not the
Net, write the following query:
surfing AND NOT the Net
- Add the OR keyword 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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Put quotation marks around keywords if you want
Index Server to take them literally. For instance, if you type the
following query:
"system near manager"
Index Server will literally look for the complete phrase system
near manager. But if you type the same query without the
quotation marks:
system near manager
Index Server searches all documents for the words system
and manager.
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