About the Search Engine

HELP: About the Search Engine

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Search Help

Enter your search text.
Click on the Search button.
A list of pages containing all the words in your search text is displayed.
To view a page, click on its title.

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Basic search	The search tool finds pages that contain all the words you are searching for. The words can be anywhere on the page. FindinSite-CD ignores all punctuation characters in your search text.
Word stemming and synonyms	Searching for throw will also match the words throws, thrower, throwers, ... Common mis-spellings and regional variations are also matched, so teh will also find the, and color will also find colour and vice versa. Put text in 'single quotes' if you do not want word stemming or synonyms.
Letter case	Use single quotes to match capitals eg: 'Mexico'.
Adjacent words	Use double quotes to match adjacent words eg: "mexico city". Punctuation characters have the same effect, so sales@phdcc.com is equivalent to "sales phdcc com". These searches may take longer.
Logical searches	Use and, or, not and parentheses ( ) to do logical searches. To find the words and, or or not put them in "double quotes". A basic search for swiss cheese is equivalent to swiss and cheese.
Wild cards	Use ? to match exactly one character and * to match any number of characters. For example, mexic? and mex* both match the word mexico.
Previous searches	Press the `Esc` key to go back to your previous search text.
Help	Click on Help for quick instructions.

FindinSite-CD search engine provided by phdcc.