Tips for Searching

At its simplest, a full text query can be just a word or a phrase, keep your query limited to a single word for more direct results.  These tips will get you started with the basic query and the full power of the Perl Scripting Language. This search engine will find the matching documents that contain Any and All words in your search criteria. To narrow your search limit the number of words in your criteria. Examples: 

• To look for words with the same prefix. For example, in your query form type key* to find key, keying, keyhole, keyboard, and so on. .

• Add a space to find all instances of either one word or another, for example:

        Abbott Costello

            This query finds all pages that mention Abbott or Costello or both.

The Perl Script will examine your query, extract documents that contain all, some and simple sentences for you. With free text queries you can enter any text you want, from a proper question, to a string of words and phrases, without worrying about the query language. For example, if you type in the following query:

"How do I use Netscape Mail?"

You will be returned pages containing How,do,I,use,Netscape,Mail and ?. This query would most definitely return all the documents in the site. If you limit your query to Netscape you will receive only those documents containing the word Netscape.