- Ignored 'Noise' words:
These are common words such as: a,
an, and,
as and others. These words
will be ignored by the search engine unless they are part of a Boolean
(see below) search.
- Punctuation marks:
Punctuation marks such as: ; (semicolon),
: (colon), .
(full stop/period), , (comma)
and others are ignored by the search engine.
- Special Characters:
To use specially treated characters such as &,
|, ^,
#, @,
$, (,
), in a query, enclose your
query in quotation marks (“).
- Case:
The search engine is case insensitive so the query "Conflict
Resolution" will return the same results as "conflict
resolution".
- Keyword Search:
The query, conflict resolution will
return all documents containing the words "conflict" and "resolution". This
type of search will return the same results as the Boolean "conflict"
AND "resolution".
- Boolean Searches:
The query, conflict AND NOT resolution
will return documents containing "conflict" but not "resolution".
The query, conflict AND resolution
will return documents containing the words "conflict" and "resolution".
The query, conflict OR resolution
will return documents containing "conflict" and also documents containing
"resolution".
- Wildcards:
The query res* will return
all documents containing "res" as part of a word, i.e. "resolution", "resolve"
and so on.
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