| At its simplest, a query can be just a word or a phrase.
But with the tips on this page, you can expand the focus of your
query to give you more complete results. These tips will get you
started with basic queries.
- Look for words with the same prefix. For
example, in your query form type key* to find key, keying,
keyhole, keyboard, and so on.
- Search for all forms of a word. For
example, in the form type sink** to find sink, sinking, sank, and
sunk.
- Search with the keyword NEAR, rather than
AND, for words close to each other. For example, both of these
queries, system and manager and system near manager, look for the
words system and manager on the same page. But with NEAR, the
returned pages are ranked in order of proximity: The closer
together the words are, the higher the rank of that page.
- Refine your queries with the AND NOT keywords to exclude certain
text from your search. For example, if you want to find all
instances of surfing but not the Net, write the following query:
surfing AND NOT the
Net
- Add the OR keyword to find all instances of either one word
or another, for example:
Abbott OR Costello
This query finds all pages that mention
Abbott or Costello or both.
- Put quotation marks around keywords if you want Site Search
to take them literally. For instance, if you type the following
query:
"system near manager"
Site Search will literally look for the complete phrase system
near manager. But if you type the same query without the quotation
marks:
system near manager
Site Search searches all documents for the words system and
manager.
These hints will get you started, but for
more complex queries and more examples, see the Site Help page
.
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