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To find information about a topic, simply type in a few keywords. The more detailed your query, the more relevant your results.

Our search engine also comes with some advanced capabilities to help you find exactly what you're looking for. These capabilities are best shown with a few examples below:

 

Translated: require carousel, require parker

Finds "Parker carousel", "Carousel by Parker", and "carousel by parker".
Does not find the lowercase "cgi scripting", nor the abbreviated "CGI script".

Translated: forbid parker, require carousel

Finds "Dentzel Carousel", "New Carousel".
Does not find "Parker Carousel" nor "Carousel by Parker".

Translated: prefer parker, require carousel
Documents with both terms appear higher in the list.

Translated: require the phrase "Parker Carousel"

Finds "Parker Carousel".
Does not find "Carousel by Parker" nor "Parker made Carousel".

Translated: require parker (case insensitive), require words starting with "carous"

Finds "Parker Carousel", "Parker carousels", "Parker Caroussel".
The asterisk is a wildcard representing any four or fewer characters.

Translated: require carousel (case sensitive), require pictures, forbid parker, prefer images

First lists "pictures and images of carousels", then "carousel pictures".

Translated: ignores common words like where, is, and the - requires words containing "chariot"

Finds "frog", "frogleg", and "bullfrog".
To suppress the ignore feature, use quotes, as in "Where is the *chariot*?".

Note on case sensitivity - only words or phrases containing an upper case character will be treated as case sensitive. A search on "usa" will match "Usa", "USA", and "usA", while the term "USA" matches only its uppercase version.

The asterisk is a powerful search tool, but has some limitations. It cannot span words - that is, the query "powerfu*earch" would not match the first sentence of this paragraph - 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 alpha-numeric characters. A search for "th*" would be ignored.

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