Tips for Searching

At its simplest, a query can be just a word or a phrase. But with the tips on this page, you can expand the focus of your query to give you more complete results.

• Search with the keyword NEAR, rather than AND, for words close to each other. For example, both of these queries, system and manager and system near manager, look for the words system and manager on the same page. But with NEAR, the returned pages are ranked in order of proximity: The closer together the words are, the higher the rank of that page.

• Put quotation marks around keywords to take them literally. For instance, if you type the following query:
  
  "system near manager"
  
  Will literally look for the complete phrase system near manager. But if you type the same query without the quotation marks:
  
  system near manager
  
  Searches all documents for the words system and manager.