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Home page |
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Will search in… |
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Default search |
AND |
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Case sensitive |
Only in searches for persons and "interesting case" (e.g. mixed case such as NeXt) |
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Natural language queries |
Partly
Select "all the words" from the menu |
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Spell check |
No |
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Translates pages into another language |
No |
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SYNTAX |
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Find pages that have one or more of these words |
dog OR cat
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dog | cat
Set menu to "Boolean phrase" or use menu selecting "any of the words" |
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Find pages that contain all these words |
+dog +cat
or
dog AND cat
or
dog & cat
Set menu to "Boolean phrase" or use menu selecting "all of the words" |
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Find pages that contain the first, but not the last, word |
dog NOT cat
or
dog -cat
or
dog ! cat
Set menu to "Boolean phrase" or use menu |
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Find pages that contain the following exact phrase |
"raining cats and dogs"
Set menu to "Boolean phrase" or use menu |
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Find pages that contain these words in near proximity of each other |
No |
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Find pages that contain words that starts with the following letters
(joker-signs, truncation, wildcard) |
dog*
finds "dog", "dogs", "doghouse" etc.
or
d?g (for one and only one letter)
finds "dig", "dog", "dug"
Use word stemming under "Supersearch" |
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Nesting (Use of parentheses) |
Kennedy AND (Robert OR John)
finds all pages that contains the words Kennedy and Robert and all pages that contain the words Kennedy and John |
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FIELD SEARCH |
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Find pages that have the following http-address (or parts of address) |
Domainwww.pandia:com
Or use domain under "Supersearch" |
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Find pages under the following domain |
domain:com
Or use domain under "Supersearch" |
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Find pages that contain images with names that contains the following word |
+feature:image
or use menu |
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Find pages that contain links to the following address |
Linkdomain:pandia.com
Restricts searches to pages containing links to this domain (not complete address) |
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Find pages that contain the follwing word in the title |
title:dog
or use menu |
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Find pages that contain the following text anywhere in the HTML-code |
No |
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Find pages written in a particular language |
No |
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Find pages made in the following time period |
After:[day]/[month]/[year]
or
Before:[day]/[month]/[year]
Or use menu |
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FIELD SEARCH USENET NEWSGROUPS |
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Find this newsgroup |
No |
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Find this text in the subject field of newsgroup messages |
No |
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Find messages that are written by the following |
No |
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Find messages that are dated… |
No |
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