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Tips on Searching
Search finds words, not strings. A search for "in" would turn up only that word, not "bin", "inside", or "acquaintance". To perform a string search, preface your term with the dollar sign - a query on "$in" would find all words listed above.
If a search term has at least one capital letter, like "Parls", the search will be case sensitive with respect to that word - that is, only documents containing "Parls" will be found. On the other hand, lowercase words like "paris" will generate hits from "Paris", "PARIS", or "Parls".
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more advanced searching...
Each term may be preceded by the standard Boolean operators "not", "and" or "or". If you search for "eternal not eternity", you'll find all documents containing the word "eternal" except those documents which also contain the word "eternity". If
you type in "and memorial and eterna; and eternity", you'll find only those documents which contain all three search terms. The default value is "or". Thus, a search for
"memorial eternal eternity" would return pages with at least one of the three terms.
These rules are based on Altavista's query syntax; a look at their search tips may prove useful.
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