Queries
Options
Boolean
operators such as AND, OR, NOT, NEAR to narrow your search. When
typing more than one word the boolean operator" AND "
is automatically inserted.
FORMAT
sets the search results style between different types of templates.
Simple searches will provide you with a list
of documents and the relevance ranking of each document through
frequency statistics.
Expanded searches provide you with a brief
sample of the document’s content as well as the information
found with a simple search.
Custom searches provide you with more details about the results as well as the information
found with an expanded search.
Proximity Search or Near Operator
You can search for terms that occur within a paragraph, provided the administrator has built the database(s) with paragraph option. When typing two words within double quotes, the "near" operator will be automatically inserted.
Exact phrase
You can search for an exact phrase (query containing more than one term) in a document by putting single quotes around the search query.
Exact phrase and boolean operation
Complex queries containing an exact phrase and a single search can be performed by entering the exact phase in the first text box and a single term in the second text box labelled "Optional". The first text box accepts both a single term and an exact phrase while the second box accepts only single terms.
Wild card
You can use wild card search to get results that start with particular characters. For example, to get documents containing terms that begin with comp, enter comp* as the search term.
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