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SEARCH HELP
AND
Operator "&" default operator
By example, let us try to find "analog framegrabber" using
the AND operator. Since AND is the default operator, entering either
"analog framegrabber " or "analog& framegrabber"
will produce similar results.
OR Operator
"|"
By entering OR in between keywords, documents containing one or
more of the keywords will be found. For example, if you enter fish,
goldfish, and salmon using OR after each word, the search results
will produce documents containing one or more of these keywords.
NOT Operator
"!"
By entering NOT in front of the keyword, documents containing that
keyword will not appear in the search result. For example, if you
wish to search documents containing "Operating System"
but not documents that contain "accelerated" together
with "framegrabber," you just need to follow the example
below. As you can see, the NOT operator is frequently used along
with other search options (Here, in the example box, it is used
together with the AND operator).
GROUP Operator
"( )"
When using many operators in your search you can specify higher
priority to a certain operator. The GROUP operator enables you to
choose priority in certain search options. For example, if you wish
to initially find documents containing the keywords "Microsoft"
or "software" and then secondarily find documents containing
the keyword "Product" in the initial search, then you
need to follow the below example. If you simply type in "microsoft"
OR "software" AND "Product," then all documents
containing these words will be found. Your search will not be accurate.
WILD operator
"*"
The WILD operator will help you find all documents that contain
a certain prefix or suffix that you choose.
PARTIAL STRING
operator "^"
The Partial String operator will find all documents containing a
specific word in any place of the text- either as a suffix or prefix.
Thus the Partial String operator is a combination of the WILD operator's
prefix and suffix option. (ball^ = ball* | *ball)
FIELD operator
The FILED operator lets you confine your search to certain fields
such as <meta>, <body>, <title> or <href>.
First you need to specify the keyword that you wish to search and
then specify the target field for the search.
Reference
The keyword, title, body and URL can also be shortened to "k",
"t", "b" and "u" respectively.
Phrase search operator (" ")
You can use Phrase search operator to search for the phrases or
clauses within the company name, movie title, or album title. You
would need to type "I & you & last & summer &
what" to search without phrase search operator in the following
example. However, Phrase search operator lets you search for the
keyword in the example without any other operators.
Synonym Extension
operator (Entered as "#")
When you wish to search synonyms to the keyword then you can use
the synonym extension operator to perform this task. Let us try
to find all related words of the word "Calculator". The
search engine will first draw synonyms from the search engine thesaurus
and then proceed with the search on your homepage.
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