Search Tips
You can search for any word or phrase on our Web site by typing the word or
phrase into the query form and clicking the button to execute search. The search
returns a list of files that contain the word or phrase no matter where they
appear in the text.
Tips for Searching
At its simplest, a query can be just at its simplest, a query can be just a word or a phrase. But with the tips on
this page, you can expand the focus of your query to give you more complete
results.
- Queries are case-insensitive, so you can type your query in uppercase or lowercase.
- You can search for any word except for those in the exception list (for English, this includes 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 queries.
- 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 use specially treated characters such as &, |, ^, #, @, $, (, ), in a query, enclose your query in quotation marks (").
- Search with the keyword NEAR, rather than AND, for words close to each other.
- For example, both of these queries, system and manager and system near manager, look for the words system and manager on the same page.
- But with NEAR, the returned pages are ranked in order of proximity:
- The closer together the words are, the higher the rank of that page.
- Refine your queries with the AND NOT keywords to exclude certain text from your search.
- For example, if you want to find all instances of surfing but not surfing the Net, write the following query: surfing AND NOT the Net
- Add the OR keyword to find all instances of either one word or another, for example: Abbott OR Costello This query finds all pages that mention Abbott or Costello or both.
- Put quotation marks around keywords if you want Index Server to take them literally.
- For instance, if you type the following query: "system near manager" Index Server will literally look for the complete phrase system near manager.
- But if you type the same query without the quotation marks: system near manager Index Server searches all documents for the words system and manager.
- 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".
These tips will get you started with basic query language of TIC2 Search.