The more similar words you use in a search, the more relevant your results
will be.
Example: safe secure privacy security
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.
Example: Search Template Reference
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.
Note: if you are using the Advanced Search Form with radio buttons for "any,"
"all," and "phrase," then quotes can only be used when the "any" radio button
is selected. Quotes are ignored if the "all" or "phrase" radio buttons are selected.
Example: "our pledge to you"
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.
Note: if you are using the Advanced Search Form with radio buttons for "any,"
"all," and "phrase," then plus and minus can only be used when the "any" radio
button is selected. Plus and minus are ignored if the "all" or "phrase" radio
buttons are selected.
Example: +"template language"
Use field searches
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 in 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. Phrases
must be contained within quotation marks.
Note: if you are using the Advanced Search Form with a list box for the field
name, then field names can only be entered before a word or phrase when the
"any" option is selected. Specific field names are ignored if any other Advanced
Search Form field is selected in the list box.
Examples:
title:about
desc:"Our Team"
keys:login
body:security
alt:"join now"
url:help
target:Atomz
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.
Example:
Examples:
wh*
"wh* are"
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