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GENERAL
SEARCH TIPS
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CHECK
SPELLING
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Make sure your
search terms are spelled correctly. The search engine will attempt to find words
that sound similar to your search terms, but it's always best to try to spell the
search terms correctly. |
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USE
MULTIPLE WORDS OR SIMILAR WORDS
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Using multiple
words will return more refined results than a single word. For example, typing "our
free service" will return more relevant results than typing just "service."
Keep in mind that relevant results are returned even if they don't contain all query
terms.
Likewise, the more similar words you use in a search, the more relevant your results
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USE
APPROPRIATE CAPITALIZATION
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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. |
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USE
A PLUS (+) OR MINUS (-) SIGN
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Use a plus sign
when your search term(s) or phrase(s) 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: Do not leave spaces between the plus or minus sign and the term. |
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USE
FIELD SEARCHES
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Field searches
allow you to create specific searches for words that appear in a specific part of
a document. A field search can be performed on:
- Body text
(body:),
- Title text
(title:),
- Alt text (alt:),
- Meta description
(desc:),
- Meta key words
(keys:),
- URL (url:)
or
- Meta target
key words (target:).
The field name
should be lower case, and immediately followed by a colon. There should be no spaces
between the colon and the search term.
Note: The field
searches can only be followed by a word or phrase.
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USE
WILD CARDS
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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 anyword that starts with "wh" such as 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".
Wildcards may
be combined with the standard plus (+) and minus (-) modifiers, quotes for phrases,
as well as the field search specifiers.
- Example: "+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".
- Example: "wh*
are" will find the phrases "where are", "what are", "why
are", etc.
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