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| When the Internet-style Query Parser is implemented for a
Information Server, you can use familiar commands from the Internet to
search for documents. These Search Tips are a guide to the process of using
the Internet-style Query Parser to find the information you want. The guide
starts with an overview of searching and moves from simple searches using
a single word or phrase to more complicated searches. Use the many examples
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For more information, click the link in the following quick tips:
- Enter your search terms in lower
case with a space between the terms.
sales offices
You can also enter a full question or concept in plain
language.
Where are the sales offices?
- Capitalize proper nouns to search for specific people, places, or products.
John Colter, Netscape Navigator
- Enclose a phrase in double quotes to search for that exact phrase.
"museum of natural history" "museum of modern art"
- Narrow your searches by using a + if a search term must appear on a page.
museum +art
- Exclude pages by using a - if a search term must not appear on a page.
museum -Paris
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Combine these techniques to create a specific search query. The better your description of the information you want, the more relevant your results will be.
museum +"natural history" dinosaur -Chicago
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| A search is the organized pursuit of information. Somewhere in a collection
of documents, email messages, Web pages, and other sources, there is information
that you want to find, but you have no idea where it is. The Verity search
engine gives you the means of finding that information.
You conduct a search by issuing a query, which is simply a way
of asking a question that will find the information you are looking for.
Searching is often an iterative process. You submit a query and if the
results list does not contain the information you are looking for, you
modify the query until you locate a page that contains the answer. |
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The Verity search engine provides the following tools to help you find
what you are looking for:
- A search form to enter your query
- Ways to broaden or narrow the extent of your search
- A results list of pages that match your query
The Verity search engine produces a ranked list where the documents at the top of the list are more likely to be relevant
than the documents toward the bottom.
The relevance of a document is based on how many of the search terms
are present in the document, how frequently the search terms occur, and
how close the search terms are to each other.
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