Search Tips
To get more useful results, try these tips for effective searching:
- Try and enter words or phrases that are likely to be found only in the information you want to find. The more words you enter, the better results you'll get.
- Look for two or more words at once by using the AND operator. For example - type book AND reviews to find documents that have the word, book and the word reviews anywhere.
- Look for words that are close to each other by using the NEAR operator instead of the AND operator. When you use NEAR, the closer together the words are, the higher the rank of the page, so the higher it appears in the list of search results. For example - type book NEAR reviews to match documents where the word, book is within 50 words of the word review.
- Look for synonyms or similar words by using the OR operator. Note that if you don't use the OR operator and search using multiple words, the words are treated as a phrase. For example - type city OR region to find the word city or the word region, but not necessarily both.
- Limit your search by using the AND NOT operator to exclude words. For example - type city AND NOT region to find all instances of city, as long as city is not followed by the word region.
- Use AND, OR, NOT, or NEAR literally by using double quotes. For example - type "library and events" to find documents with the phrase library and events. Without the double quotes, this query would use the AND operator instead of the phrase.
- Look for words that begin with the same letters by using a single asterisk (*). For example - type develop* to find develop, developed, developing, development and so on.
- Look for all forms of a word by using a double asterisk (**). For example - type fly** to match fly, flew, flown.