Site Search
By default the search engine is designed to locate pages
which have exact matches for
all of the words entered in your search
query. If that fails, it then tries to locate pages which contain
any
words in your search query. If that happens a short message is displayed at
the top of the search results indicating this has been done.
In addition, there are several ways to modify the default search behaviour.
- + and - qualifiers
If you prefix a word with + that word is required to be on the page.
If you prefix a word with - that word is required to not be on the
page.
Example: +always -never
- * wildcard
If a query word ends with * all words on a page which start the same
way as that query word will match.
Example: gift*
- ? wildcard
If a query word contains a ? any character will match that position.
Example: b?g
All of these techniques can be combined, for example:
+alway* -ne??r*
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Last Updated: Thursday, 20 May 2004
