search tips

•  Queries are not case sensitive.
  
•  Do not enter frequently used words like 'about', 'is', 'end', 'very', 'under', etc. in the search box. These words are considered noise or exception words and will be removed from your search. 
  
  • When executing an 'Advanced query,' exception words generate an error. 
    
  • Boolean operators (and, or, near, not) are also considered noise words except in 'Advanced query.'
    
• Use quotation marks only when entering an 'Advanced query.'   For 'All words', 'Any words' and 'Exact phrase' they may produce unpredictable results.
  
• Select 'All words' to find web pages and documents that have all words entered in the search box and ' Any words' to find documents with at least one these words.
  
• Try 'Exact phrase' if you expect the web pages and documents you are interested to have the words typed in the search box exactly in the same order and with same number of spaces between them.
  
•  'Advanced query' option is for experienced users. You may use any combinations of boolean operators (and, or, near, not and short forms &, |, &!, ~) combined using parenthesis.
  
  • 'Search page titles only' button is ignored if checked in 'Advanced query'
  • Boolean operators are evaluated in the following order:
    1. NOT
    2. AND or NEAR
    3. OR
    After precedence rules are applied, operators are processed left to right. You can use parentheses ( ) to override the normal precedence.
    
  • Document properties can also be used. For example @DocAuthor John | Doe will return documents with John or Doe in author property and @DocAuthor John & Doe will return documents with both words in the property. @DocAuthor Mac* returns documents whose Author property begins with "Mac". Similarly you can use @DocTitle, @FileName, @DocSubject
    
  • The default for 'Advanced query' is an 'or' search.

Exception words

The following words should not be entered in the search box. When executing an 'Advanced query' they produce an error.  For all other type of searches they are removed from the words list. Single characters and digits are also disallowed.

about, can, how, of, the, were, after, come, if, on, their, what, all, could, in, only, them, when, also, did, into, or, then, where, an, do, is, other, there, which, and, does, it, our, these, while, another, each, its, out, they, who, any else just over this will, are, for, like, re, those, with, as, from, make, said, through, would, at, get, many, same, to, you, be, got, me, see, too, your, because, has, might, since, under, been, had, more, should, up, before, he, most, so, use, being, have, much, some, very, between, her, must, still, want, both, here, my, such, was, but, him, never, take, way, by, himself, no, than, we, came, his, now, that, well