The text search engine allows queries to be formed from arbitrary Boolean expressions containing the keywords AND, OR, and NOT, and grouped with parentheses. The search is not case sensitive.
For example:
- Eastman Gun Shows
- finds all documents containing the word 'Eastman Gun Shows', 'Gun' or the word 'Shows'
- Eastman Gun Shows and Matthew
- finds all documents containing both the words 'Eastman Gun Shows' and the word 'Matthew'
- Eastman Gun Shows not Matthew
- finds all documents containing the word 'Eastman Gun Shows' but not the word 'Matthew'
- (Eastman Gun Shows not Perry)and Gun Shows
- finds all documents containing the word 'Gun Shows', plus the word 'Eastman Gun Shows' but not the word 'Matthew'
- web*
- finds all documents containing words starting with 'web'
This page last updated: February 20, 2008