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Tips for Searching
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.
 | Look for words with the same prefix. For example, in your query
form type key* to find key, keying, keyhole,
keyboard, and so on.
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| Search for all forms of a word. For example, in the form type sink**
to find sink, sinking, sank, and sunk.
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| Search with the keyword NEAR, rather than AND, for
words close to each other. For example, both of these queries, science
and technology and science near technology, look for the
words science and technology 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.
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| 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 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 the search engine
to take them literally. For instance, if you type the following
query: |
"science near technology"
the search engine will literally look for the complete phrase science
near technology. But if you type the same query without the
quotation marks:
science near technology
the search engine searches all documents for the words science
and technology.
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