Searching — Quick Tips and Examples

• To search our web site just type in a few words or phrases in the search box.
• Try to use discriminating terms that are likely to be found only in the documents you seek.
• The more words you use, the better results will be returned.

Examples

Search by typing words and phrases

Pentium computer with 8x CD-ROM for sale

The search engine will find documents containing as many of these words and phrases as possible, ranked so the documents most relevant to your query are presented first. Don't worry about missing a document because it does not have one of the words in your search -- the search engine returns relevant results even documents do not contain all query terms.

Identify phrases with quotation marks, separate with commas

Pentium computer with "8x CD-ROM", "for sale"

A phrase is entered using double quotation marks, and only matches those words which appear adjacent to each other. Separate multiple phrases or proper names with a comma.

Use UPPER case to indicate exact match

Steve Jobs, NeXT

Search terms in lowercase will match words in any case; otherwise, an exact case match is used. For example, next will find matches for Next and next and NeXT. A query for NeXT will only match NeXT.