|
Symbol
|
Translation
|
Example
|
Usage
|
|
+ / and
|
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. (since web is "preferred") |
|
" "
|
Exactly match this phrase |
"Internet Help" |
This will find all listing that contain the phrase
"Internet Help". Note that using the quote marks
forces the engine into a case-sensitive search. |
|
url:
|
Find all entries belonging to a given domain or matching a
file name |
url:www.mysite.com
url:*asp
|
The top example will return all entries in the www.mysite.com
domain. The lower example shows how you could find every .asp
page listed in the engine. |
|
mailto
|
Find all entries submitted by a person with this email
address |
mailto:fred@mysite.com
mailto:fred@mysi*
|
This is a convenience search, if you know who posted a link
(or want to see if a certain person has posted any links, this
is how you'd find them. |
|
*
|
Match anything |
inter*
|
You can use the asterisk as a "wildcard" to match
parts of a word. In our example, the search would return any
listing with any word starting with "inter". The
asterisk does have one limitation: it cannot span words - that
is, the query "mat*arts" would not match the first
sentence of this description - and it can represent at most
four letters or numbers. To avoid overly broad searches, the
asterisk can only be used in words or phrases which have at
least three characters, so a search for "th*" or
"an*" would be ignored.
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