Exceptions: 'Noise' words:
These are common words such as: a,
an,
and, as and others. These words
will be ignored by the search engine unless they are part of a Boolean (see
below) search. Punctuation marks:
Punctuation marks such as: ; (semicolon),
: (colon),
. (full stop/period),
, (comma) and others are ignored by
the search engine. Special Characters:
To use specially treated characters such as &,
|,
^, #,
@,
$, (,
), in a query, enclose your query in
quotation marks (“).
Search Help: Case:
The search engine is case insensitive so the query "User
Manual" will return the same results as "user
manual". Keyword Search:
The query, user manual will return all
documents containing the words "user" and "manual". This type of search will
return the same results as the Boolean "user"
AND "manual". Phrase Search:
The query, "user manual" which will
only return documents containing "user manual". Boolean Searches:
The query, user AND NOT manual will
return documents containing "user" but not "manual".
The query, user AND manual will return
documents containing the words "user" and "manual".
The query, user OR manual will return
documents containing "user" and also documents containing "manual". Proximity Searches:
The query, user NEAR manual will
return documents containing the word "user" NEAR the word "manual". Advanced Searches:
The query @size > 1000 will return all
documents with a size greater than 1KB.
The query #filename *.doc will return
only word documents.
The query @write > 01/2/1 10:00:00
will return only documents modified since the 1st Feb 2001 at 12:00am.
The query man* will return all
documents containing "man" as part of a word, i.e. "manual", "manually" and so
on.