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Advanced Search
Four fields may be specified on the search form: Search Text, File Size, when last Modified, and File Type. Each of these fields is optional, however you must enter at least one field before clicking the "Search" button. You may combine the fields in whatever way you wish, however if too many fields are entered, the index server may decide that the search is too expensive to complete, and the search will not be performed. Below the four fields are explained in more detail.
Search Text
- Enter a word or phrase.
- Use AND, OR, or NOT (e.g. surfing AND NOT the net).
- Use NEAR to search for words close together (e.g. system NEAR manager).
- Use quotations to search for keywords (e.g. "system near manager").
- Use * to look for words with the same prefix (e.g. key* finds key, keying, keyboard, etc.).
- Use ** to search for all forms of a word (e.g. sink** finds sink, sinking, sank, sunk).
Note: The following characters can be used instead of and, or, not, and near:
- and: &
- or: |
- not: !
- near: ~
e.g. surfing & ! the net
- The NEAR operator considers the words near if they are less than or equal to 50 words apart.
- The NOT operator can be used only after an AND operator.
- The AND operator has a higher precedence than OR.
- You can add parentheses to nest expressions within a search (e.g. "(a OR b) AND c").
- Search text is case-insensitive.
- You can search for any word except those in the exclusion list (e.g. a, an, and, as, and other common words), which are ignored during a search.
- Words in the exception list are treated as placeholders in phrase and proximity searches. For example, if you searched for "Word for Windows", the results could give you "Word for Windows" and "Word and Windows", because for is a noise word and appears in the exception list.
- Punctuation marks such as the period (.), colon (:), semicolon (;), and comma (,) are ignored during a search.
- To search for a word or phrase containing quotation marks, enclose the entire phrase in quotation marks and then double the quotation marks around the word or words you want to surround with quotes. For example, "World-Wide Web" or ""Web""" searches for World-Wide Web or "Web".
- Words and phrases can be weighted if you separate the components by commas. e.g. invent*, light[50], bulb[10], "light bulb"[400]. Pages returned by these types of searches do not necessarily match every term in the search.
File Size
- Allows you to restrict the search to files less than or greater than a specific size.
- Choose either "Less Than" or "Greater Than" in the first list box.
- Choose "any size", "100 bytes", "1K bytes", "10K bytes", "100K bytes", "1M byte", "10M bytes", or "100M bytes" in the second list box.
- If "any size" is chosen, no file size restriction will be in place.
Modified
- Allows you to restrict the search to files last modified in a specific period of time.
- Two boxes are available, the second text box will only be used if you choose "since GMT (yy/mm/dd)" in the first list box, otherwise leave it blank.
- In the first list box, choose "at any time", "in the last 10 minutes", "in the last hour", "in the last day", "in the last week", "in the last month", "in the last year", or "since GMT (yy/mm/dd)".
- If you choose "at any time", no last modified restriction will be in place.
- If you choose "since GMT (yy/mm/dd)", then in the second text box enter the YY/MM/DD date to specify files last modified since the date you specified.
File Type
- Allows you to restrict the search to files of a certain type.
- Choose "any type", "*.htm", "*.stm", "*.asp", "*.pdf", "*.xls", "*.doc", or "*.exe" in the list box.
- If "any type" is chosen, no file type restriction will be in place.
Last modified:
Friday November 23 2007
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