 How To Use Our Web
Resources Search Engine Like A Guru
To find information
about a topic, simply type a few keywords related to the topic into
our engine's search box and press Enter or click the
Search button. For example, to find information about graphics
of cats or dogs, you might type "cat graphics" or "dog graphics".
The more
detailed your query, the more relevant your results.
For example, to find all dog and cat graphic sources listed
in our engine, you might type "dog cat graphics".
Our search engine
also comes with some advanced capabilities to help you
find exactly what you're looking for even faster and more accurately. The
special characters used for these advanced search features are listed
below:
NB:
If
you want the most comprehensive searches, type your query in lower
case. Only search words or phrases containing an upper-case character
are treated as case sensitive. Eg: A search on "internet" will match "Internet",
"INTERNET", and "InTerNet". But searching for "INTERNET" would only match
entries with INTERNET (in uppercase) in them.
Advanced Search
Commands
Prefacing a search
term with any of the special characters listed below can help refine
your searches considerably:
SYMBOL |
MEANS |
EXAMPLE |
RESULT |
+ |
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 |
" " |
Exactly
match this
phrase |
"Internet
Help" |
This
will find all entries that contain the phrase "Internet Help" (case-sensitive).
|
url: |
Find all entries
belonging to a given domain or matching a file name |
url:www.mysite.com
or
url:*asp |
The
first example will return all entries for the www.mysite.com domain. The
second example shows how to locate every .asp page listed in the engine. |
mailto |
Find all entries
submitted with this email address |
mailto:fred@mysite.com
mailto:fred@mysi* |
This
search allows you to find all page postings made by a specific person using
their email address as the primary search criteria. |
* |
Match
anything |
inter* |
You
can use the asterisk as a "wildcard" to match parts of a word. In the example,
the search would return any listing with any word starting with "inter".
NB: The asterisk can represent 4 four letters/numbers at most, and
can only be used in words or phrases which have at least 3 characters |
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