| Basic search |
The search tool finds pages that contain all the words you are searching for.
The words can be anywhere on the page.
All punctuation characters are ignored in your search text.
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Word stemming
and synonyms |
Searching for bowl will also match the words bowls,
bowler, bowlers, ...
Common mis-spellings and regional variations are also matched, so
teh will also find the, and
color will also find colour and vice versa.
Put text in 'single quotes' if you do not want word stemming or synonyms.
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| Letter case |
Use single quotes to match capitals eg: 'Boston'.
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| Adjacent words |
Use double quotes to match adjacent words eg: "base ball".
Punctuation characters have the same effect, so www.xyzzyx.com is equivalent to "www xyzzyx com".
These searches may take longer.
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| Logical searches |
Use and, or, not and parentheses ( ) to
do logical searches.
To find the words and, or or not put them in "double quotes".
A basic search for basket ball is equivalent to basket and ball.
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| Wild cards |
Use ? to match exactly one character and * to match
any number of characters. For example, heav? and hea* both match
the word heaven.
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| Previous searches |
Press the Esc key to go back to your previous search text.
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| Subsets |
If available, click on Subsets to choose the
subsets that you want to include in your search.
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| Indexes |
If available, click on Indexes to change the index.
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| Languages |
If available, click on Languages to change the user interface language.
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| Help |
Click on Help for instructions, version details and information
on the current index.
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| Word highlighting |
In Internet Explorer 4 or later for Windows and some other browsers, any found search words will be highlighted on the page.
like this
and add navigation arrows
(< and >)
to help you move between matching words.
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