Table of Contents
Introduction
Administrator
User
Appendix
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How to search
This text can be added to your page if you want to tell your users
how to use boolean operators.
- It is possible to use quotation marks (?) and asterisks (*) to
broaden searches. A search for "net*" might match "netscape",
"nethack", "network" and so on. A search for "int??net" matches
"intranet" as well as "internet". Note that IntraSeek requires that
the user specifies at least three characters in front of the "*"
notation, and that there is no difference between lower- and uppercase
searches.
- You can use quotation marks to search for a phrase. For
example, a search for "John Carl Smith" will search for persons with
this name. Without quotes, you would have get any pages that use any
of those common names.
Boolean search allows you to include or exclude documents
containing certain words through the use of the operators AND, OR, NOT
and XOR.
- If you just type some keywords, the "OR" operator is assumed.
For example, searching for "coca-cola pepsi jolt" will accept all documents
containing one or more of any of these three words.
- Searching for "coca-cola AND pepsi" only displays the documents that
contain BOTH coca-cola and pepsi.
- Searching for "(coca-cola AND pepsi) AND NOT jolt" will display all
documents that contain the words "coca-cola" and "pepsi", but will leave
out documents containing anything about "jolt".
- You can add any level of "(" and ")" to build evaluation trees.
- Searching for "(coca-cola XOR pepsi)" will display all documents
that contain the word "coca-cola" or the word "pepsi", but not both.
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