Tips for Searching

At its simplest, a query can be just a word or a phrase. But with the tips on this page, you can expand the focus of your query to give you more complete results.

• Look for words with the same prefix. For example, in the search box type key* to find key, keying, keyhole, keyboard, and so on.

• Search for all forms of a word. For example, in the search box 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, Entities and Module and Entities near Module, look for the words Entities and Module 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 search with the AND NOT keywords to exclude certain text from your search. For example, if you want to find all instances of Entities but not Module, enter the following:
Entities AND NOT Module

• Add the OR keyword to find all instances of either one word or another, for example:
  Entities OR Module
  This search finds all pages that mention Entities or Module or both.

• Put quotation marks around keywords if you want the search facility to take them literally. For instance, if you type the following search:
  
  "Entities near Module"

  The search facility will literally look for the complete phrase Entities near Module. But if you type the same search without the quotation marks:
  
  Entities near Module

  The Search facility searches all documents for the words Entities and Module.