|
Symbol
|
Translation
|
Example
|
Usage
|
|
+ / and
|
Require this term |
+internet |
Will only display listings that contain the word
"internet" |
|
-
|
Forbid this term |
-web
or ...
+internet -web |
Will only display listings that DO NOT contain
the word "web" |
|
or
|
Prefer this term |
+internet or web |
This will find all listings containing
"internet", and will rank those that also contain the word
"web" a bit higher. (since web is "preferred") |
|
" "
|
Exactly match this phrase |
"Internet Help" |
This will find all listing that contain the
phrase "Internet Help". Note that using the quote marks forces the
engine into a case-sensitive search. |
|
url:
|
Find all entries belonging to a given domain or
matching a file name |
url:www.mysite.com
url:*asp
|
The top example will return all entries in the www.mysite.com
domain. The lower example shows how you could find every .asp page listed in the
engine. |
|
mailto
|
Find all entries submitted by a person with this
email address |
mailto:fred@mysite.com
mailto:fred@mysi*
|
This is a convenience search, if you know who
posted a link (or want to see if a certain person has posted any links, this is
how you'd find them. |
|
*
|
Match anything |
inter*
|
You can use the asterisk as a
"wildcard" to match parts of a word. In our example, the search would
return any listing with any word starting with "inter". The asterisk
does have one limitation: it cannot span words - that is, the query
"mat*arts" would not match the first sentence of this description -
and it can represent at most four letters or numbers. To avoid overly broad
searches, the asterisk can only be used in words or phrases which have at least
three characters, so a search for "th*" or "an*" would be
ignored.
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