To find information about a topic, simply
type in a few keywords. The more detailed your query, the more relevant
your results.
Our search engine also comes with some advanced capabilities to help you
find exactly what you're looking for. These capabilities are best shown
with a few examples:
Translated: require CGI, require scripting
Finds
"CGI Scripting", "CGI scripting", and
"scripting of type CGI".
Does not find the lowercase "cgi scripting", nor
the abbreviated "CGI script".
Translated: forbid CGI, require scripts
Finds
"Perl scripts", "Hollywood scripts", and
lowercase "cgi scripts".
Does not find "CGI definitions" nor "CGI
scripts".
Translated: prefer CGI, require scripts
Finds
"Perl scripts", "CGI scripts", and
"CGI Scripts".
Documents with both terms appear higher in the list.
Translated: require the phrase "CGI scripts"
Finds
"CGI scripts".
Does not find "CGI Scripts" nor "scripts of
type CGI".
Translated: require cgi (case insensitive), require words
starting with "script"
Finds
"CGI scripts", "cgi scripting", "Cgi
scripter".
The asterisk is a wildcard representing any four or fewer
characters.
First
lists "pictures and images of Venus", then
"Venus pictures".
Does not list lowercase "venus picture", nor
forbidden "picture of planet Venus".
Translated: ignores common words like where, is, and the -
requires words containing "frog"
Finds
"frog", "frogleg", and
"bullfrog".
To suppress the ignore feature, use quotes, as in
"Where is the *frog*?".
Note on case sensitivity - only words or
phrases containing an upper case character will be treated as case
sensitive.
A search on "usa" will match "Usa", "USA",
and "usA", while the term "USA" matches only its
uppercase version.
The asterisk is a powerful search tool, but has some limitations. It
cannot span words - that is, the query "powerfu*earch" would
not match the first sentence of this paragraph - and it can represent at
most four letters or numbers. To avoid overly broad searches, the
asterisk can only be used in words or phrases which have at least three
alpha-numeric characters. A search for "th*" would be ignored.
