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To
get the best possible search results, try the following tips:
- Check spelling
- Make sure your search terms are spelled correctly. The search engine
will attempt to find words that sound similar to your search terms,
but it is always best to spell the search terms correctly.
- Use multiple
words - Use multiple words when performing your search. More words
for a search will return more refined results than a single word search.
- Use similar
words - The more similar words you use in a search, the more relevant
results will be to the words that you are searching for.
- Use appropriate
capitalization - Use capitalization when looking for proper nouns
such as the name of a person or place. Lowercase words will match any
words of any case.
- Use quotation
marks around phrases - Use quotation marks to find words that must
appear adjacent to each other within a phrase. For example, search for
"Claudyne Wilder" within quotes rather than just
Wilder.
- Use Boolean
plus (+) or minus (-) operators - Precede a search term or phrase
with a plus (+) sign to indicate it must appear in a search result.
Precede a search term with a minus (-) sign to indicate an undesirable
search term or phrase that must not appear in a search result. For example,
searching for
+dogs -collie will return results that are
about dogs, but not about collies.
- Use field searches
- Field searches allow you to search for words that appear in a specific
part of a document such as the body text (
body:), title
text (title:), alt text (alt:), meta description
(desc:), meta keywords (keys:) or URL (url:).
The field name should include the colon and precede the search word
or phrase with no spaces between them. For example, searching for title:presidents
will find pages with presidents in the title of the page.
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