Search Help
Enter a few words that best describe that you are searching for. To perform more complicated searches you might use any combination of logic operators.
Rules of Thumb
If you get too many junk or nonsense answers, try:
- Add some more words to your query.
- Look at the Match Info and see why they are showing up.
- Use the Exclusion Operator (-) to remove unwanted terms.
- If you are searching for a phrase, hyphenate the words together.
If you don't get any answers, or just too few:
- Remove some more words to your query.
- Examine your spelling.
- It just might not be there?
Keywords Phrases and Wild-cards
- To locate words, just type them in as you would in a word processor. Letter cases will be ignored.
- The wild-card character * (asterisk) may be used to match just the prefix of a word or to ignore the middle of something.
- If the item you wish to locate is more complicated than the simple * wild-card can accomplish, try using the regular expression matcher.
- To locate a number of adjacent words in a specific order, surround them with " (double quotation) characters. Putting a - (hyphen) between words will also force order and one word proximity.
| Query | Locates |
|---|---|
john |
john, John |
"john public" |
John Public |
web-browser |
Web browser, web-browser |
John*Public |
John Q. Public, John Public |
456*a*def |
1-456-789-ABCDEF |
activate |
activate, activation, activated, ... * |