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Use the expert search to make full use of the Verity Search '97 Information Server's query capabilities. You can limit your search to certain metadata fields and/or the document bodies. By default, all zones (document bodies and all metadata fields) are searched.
  1. Cautions
  2. Search examples
  3. Search help

Cautions


Search examples

Search Term                        Finds Pages That Contain
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 meet                               The string meet and
                                    stemmed variations, such as meets and
                                    meeting

 formula                            The string formula and
                                    stemmed variations, such as formulas and
                                    formulae

 "meet"                             The word meet 

 "formula"                          The word formula

 "S&L"                              The strings S&L, S & L, and S L (always 
                                    enclose words like S&L in double quotation 
                                    marks) 

 <CASE> NOW                         The string NOW in upper case

 repetitive stress injury           The phrase repetitive stress injury

 zoo*                               Words beginning with the string zoo 

 fl??ss                             Words beginning with fl and ending with ss 
                                    with any two characters in between 

 <TYPO> receive                     Words similar to receive.  Similar words have
                                    characters inserted, deleted, or transposed.

 crab OR lobster OR shrimp          Any of the words crab, lobster, or shrimp 

 bank AND loan AND business         All of the words bank, loan, and business 

 bank, loan, business               Any of the words bank, loan, and business. 
                                    The more instances of these words in a 
                                    page, the higher it appears in the results 
                                    list. 

 bank NOT river                     The word bank but not the word river 

 HTML <NEAR> publishing             The word HTML close to the word publishing

 HTML <PARAGRAPH> publishing        The word HTML in the same paragraph as the
                                    word publishing

 HTML <SENTENCE> publishing         The word HTML in the same sentence as the
                                    word publishing

 (grammy) <IN> TI                   The string and stemmed variations of
                                    grammy in the TI field 

 TI <CONTAINS> grammy               The string grammy in the TI field 

 TI <MATCHES> grammy                The entire TI field consists of 
                                    grammy

 TI <STARTS> grammy                 The TI field starts with grammy

 TI <ENDS> grammy                   The TI field ends with grammy

 TI <SUBSTRING> gram                The TI field contains string gram
                                    (Same as CONTAINS?)

 either/or proposition              The phrase either/or proposition 

 rick\'s cafe                       The phrase rick's cafe

 c:\\games                          The string c:\games

 swim OR bike AND run               Stemmed variations of bike and run on 
                                    the same page or stemmed variations of 
                                    swim 

 (swim OR bike) AND run             Stemmed variations of swim or bike
                                    and stemmed variations of run

 ((swim OR bike) AND run)           Stemmed variations of swim or bike
 OR walk                            and stemmed variations of run on the
                                    same page or stemmed variations of walk

 date = 1997-03-23                  Date field equals 1997-03-23
 date < 1997-03-23                  Date is before 1997-03-23
 date <= 1997-03-23                 Date is less than or equal to 1997-03-23
 date > 1997-03-23                  Date is after 1997-03-23
 date >= 1997-03-23                 Date is greater than or equal to 1997-03-23
                                    Note that this only works for date fields,
                                    not text.

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