Tips for Searching
At its simplest, a query can be just a word or a phrase. You can, however, 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.
Search for all forms of a word. For
example, in the form type sink** to find sink, sinking, sank, and sunk.
Search with the keyword
NEAR, rather than AND, for words close to each other. For example, both
of these queries, hotel AND camping and hotel NEAR camping, look for
the words hotel and camping 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.
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 surfing 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:
Tom OR Jerry
This query finds all pages that mention Tom or Jerry or both.
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