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Tips for Searching the
Angeles Chapter Web Sites
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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.
- Search with the keyword NEAR, rather than AND,
for words close to each other. For example, both of these queries, system
and manager and system
near manager, look for the words system and
manager 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 Index Server to take
them literally. For instance, if you type the following query:
"system near
manager"
Index Server will literally look for the complete phrase
system near manager. But if you type the same query without
the quotation marks:
system near manager
Index Server searches all documents for the words system
and manager.
- Use Free Text Queries if you want to enter queries using natural
language. Index Server will examine your query, extract nouns and noun
phrases and construct a query for you. With free text queries you can
enter any text you want, from a proper question, to a string of words
and phrases, without worrying about the query language. For example,
if you type in the following query:
"How do I
use the Index Server administration snap-in?"
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