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Make sure your search terms are spelled correctly. If Sound-Alike Matching is turned on, 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.
Using multiple words will return more refined results than a single word. For
example, typing Cohen Morocco
will return more relevant results
than typing just Cohen
. (Keep in mind that relevant results are
returned even if they don't contain all query terms.)
Example: Cohen Morocco
The more similar words you use in a search, the more relevant your results will be.
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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.
Example: Search Template Reference
Use quotation marks to find words which must appear adjacent to each other,
for example, "Spanish Inquisition."
Otherwise, the search results
will include the word Spanish
and the word Inquisition
, 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: "Spanish Inquisition"
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Example: +"inquisition" -"spanish"
= Inquisition not in Spain.
Wildcard searches can expand the number of matches for a particular request.
The *
character is used as the wildcard character.
For instance, searching for sp*
will find the words spanish
,
spaniard
, Spanish
, special
, and any other word
that starts with sp
.
Searching for arch*
will find the words archive
, archives
,
archivist
, and any other word that starts with
arch
.
*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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