|
Symbol
|
Translation
|
Example
|
Usage
|
|
+ / and
|
Require this term |
+internet |
Will only display listings that contain the
word "internet" |
|
-
|
Forbid this term |
-web
or
...
+internet
-web
|
Will only display listings that DO NOT
contain the word "web" |
|
or
|
Prefer this term |
+internet or web |
This will find all listings containing
"internet", and will rank those that also contain
the word "web" a bit higher. (since web is
"preferred") |
|
" "
|
Exactly match this phrase |
"Internet Help" |
This will find all listing that contain the
phrase "Internet Help". Note that using the quote
marks forces the engine into a case-sensitive search. |
|
url:
|
Find all entries belonging to a given domain
or matching a file name |
url:www.mysite.com
url:*asp
|
The top example will return all entries in
the www.mysite.com domain. The lower example shows
how you could find every .asp page listed in the engine. |
|
mailto
|
Find all entries submitted by a person with
this email address |
mailto:fred
mailto:fred@mysi*
|
This is a convenience search, if you know
who posted a link (or want to see if a certain person has
posted any links, this is how you'd find them. |
|
*
|
Match anything |
inter*
|
You
can use the asterisk as a "wildcard" to match
parts of a word. In our example, the search would return any
listing with any word starting with "inter". The
asterisk does have one limitation: it cannot span words -
that is, the query "mat*arts" would not match the
first sentence of this description - 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 characters, so a search for "th*"
or "an*" would be ignored.
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