Advanced Search
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Use the engine to search for documents in the FCC site containing specific words or combinations of words. The search engine will display a weighted list of matching documents, with better matches shown first. Each list item is a link to a matching document; if the document has a title it will be shown, otherwise only the document's file name is displayed. The following is a brief explanation of the query language, along with examples.
Query Options
The search engine allows queries to be formed using the Boolean expressions AND, OR, NOT, *, and PARENTHESES GROUPS. For example:
- agriculture finance
- finds documents containing 'agriculture' or 'finance'
- agriculture AND finance
- finds documents containing both 'agriculture' and 'finance'
- agriculture OR finance
- finds documents containing 'agriculture' or 'finance'
- agriculture NOT finance
- finds documents containing 'agriculture' but not 'finance'
- agri*
- finds documents containing words starting with 'agri'
- (agriculture NOT finance) AND farm
- finds documents containing 'farm', plus 'agriculture' but not 'finance'
