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TUTORIAL
TIPS FOR MORE EFFICIENT SEARCHING:
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Enter your search term in lower case to return both upper and
lower case results.
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Enclose terms in quotation marks if you want to search literally (as opposed
to subject search). To search for a person’s name, use quotes, eg.
“Rose”.
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Expand your search using OR. blitter OR sprite
will find either term, or both terms
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Narrow your search using AND. blitter AND sprite will
only return results where both terms are mentioned
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Exclude pages that are not relevant using NOT. blitter NOT
sprite will omit any result that contains lobster.
SIMPLE SEARCHES (consist of a single word or phrase)
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STEMMED WORDS: A search for compute will return results for
compute, computer and computers.
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Use “compute” to search for just the word compute.
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ALWAYS USE QUOTES to search for terms that include unusual characters, such as
the ampersand: Use quotes eg “S&L” for the string S&L, S & L,
or S L.
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Use <CASE> LED for the string LED in upper case. This search
will return matches for the acronym LED, omitting all instances of led in
lower case. (light emitting diode)
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Use computer systems architecture for the phrase
computer systems
architecture.
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The WILDCARD Asterisk is used to match terms with the same root or prefix, eg.
use comput* for words beginning with the string comput (computerized,
computing, computers).
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The WILDCARD Question Mark is used to substitute for characters in a
particular position in a word eg. use conc??ved to search for
conceived and concieved.
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The words AND, OR, and NOT are recognized as Boolean operators, so in order to
search a term eg computers and computing, the phrase must be entered as
computers “and” computing.
COMBINING SEARCH TERMS
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Search firewall OR filter to find any of the words (expand your
search).
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Search firewall AND filter to find all of the words.
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Search firewall filter for any of the words. The more instances of
these words in a page, the higher it appears in the results list.
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Search firewall NOT filter for the word bank but not the word river.
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HTML <NEAR>
publishing will find the word HTML close to the word publishing.
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HTML <SENTENCE>
publishing
will find the word HTML and publishing in the same sentence.
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HTML <PARAGRAPH>
publishing
will find the word HTML and publishing in the same paragraph.
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