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Please note: The excerpt system we use to display matching text below each document returned by a search result is designed to help you determine if this is the document you are looking for. As a result when using the advanced features below this excerpt may not fully reflect the complexity of your query; however the documents matched will.
Part I: Boolean Queries
Boolean queries support grouping, AND, OR, and NOT operations. This type of search allows you to include or exclude words. Grouping makes this even more powerful as shown in the example below.
Usage:
- AND:
- tensile & strength
- OR:
- pipe | pipeline
- NOT:
- tensile -strength, alsotensile !strength
- Grouping:
- (tensile & strength) & (pipe | pipeline)
Example: If you are looking for documents related to tensile strength on pipelines, you may start your search with:tensile strength pipelines. This search would result in 148 documents being returned.
However you realize that the search is excluding content that only mentions pipes. You can then modify your search using grouping and the OR operator to be:tensile strength (pipes | pipelines). This results in 211 documents returned in search results.
Now you notice that many of the documents are about waivers and antidumping, which don’t interest you. You can modify your search using the NOT operator as follows:tensile strength (pipes | pipelines) -waiver -antidumping. This results in a more manageable 132 results.
Part II: Phrase Search
You can use quotes ("") to wrap some or all of your search terms. By wrapping terms in quotes you are telling the search engine to look for words that are ADJACENT to each other.
Example: To continue with the example in Part I above:tensile strength (pipes | pipelines) -waiver -antidumping) you notice that documents are returned with either tensile or strength, but the terms are scattered throughout the document. You can refine your query with:"tensile strength" (pipes | pipelines) -waiver -antidumping. This results in 103 matches (fewer than before).
Part III: Exact Form Searches
In our default search, we match words based on their stem word. So when you searchfish, we also match documents containing 'fishing' and 'fished' (and vice versa). This holds true for plural forms as well,fishery also matches 'fisheries'. By using the exact form option, you can limit your search to exact matches of a word. Use the= operator in front of the word you wish to have exactly matched.
Usage:=airworthiness, matches only documents with the exact word 'airworthiness'.
Example:=fishing would only match documents with the word 'fishing' and not documents with the words 'fish' or 'fished'. Along the same lines=fishery would not match 'fisheries' only 'fishery'.
Part IV: Proximity Searches
You can use a quoted string in a search to specify that you want a proximity match. Proximity (distance between words) is specified by entering the search terms and adjusted for overall word count. Proximity searches utilize the~ operator followed by a number.
Usage:"rebuilt parts"~2, specifies that you are limiting your search to a span of less than 4 words that match. This search would match "rebuilt vehicular parts" but not "rebuilt foreign vehicular parts"
Example: If you were to search:"rebuilt parts" in FR2 you would get 17 returned results. To expand your search incrementally, you can use a proximity search:"rebuilt parts"~2 would allow matches on "rebuilt vehicular parts" and "rebuilt boat parts". A search for:"rebuilt parts"~3 would allow matches on "rebuilt foreign vehicular parts" and "rebuilt domestic boat parts".