Tips for searching

Use these tips to make searching easier.

• Match ANY search word (Boolean OR)
  Search for pages which contain AT LEAST ONE of the given search terms. The results will be sorted in order of the number of terms matched, and the determined relevancy score. Click the "match any search word" radio button to enable this search option.
  
  
• Match ALL search words (Boolean AND)
  Search for pages which contain ALL of the given search terms. The results will be sorted in order of the number of terms matched, and the determined relevancy score. Click the "match all search word" radio button to enable this search option.
  
  
• Wildcard searches
  You can use wildcard characters '*' and '?' in your search terms to search for multiple words and return larger set of results. An asterisk character ('*') in a search term represents any number of characters, while a question mark ('?') represents any single character.
  
  This allows you to perform advanced searches such as "zoom*" which would return all pages containing words beginning with "zoom". Similarly, "z??m" would return all pages containing four-letter words beginning with 'z' and ending with 'm'. Also, "*car*" would be a search for any words containing the word "car."
  
  
• Exclusion/negative searches
  You can precede a search term with a hyphen character to exclude that search term from being included in your search results. For example, a search for "cat -dog" would return all pages containing the word "cat" but not the word "dog".
  
  
• Skip words
  Note that some common words such as "the", "and", "or" are ignored by the search tool.

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