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At its simplest, a query
can be just a word or a phrase. But with the tips on
this page, you can expand the focus of your query to
give you more complete results.
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Look for words with
the same prefix. For example, in your query form
type key* to find key, keying,
keyhole, keyboard, and so on.
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Search for all forms
of a word. For example, in the form type sink**
to find sink, sinking, sank,
and sunk.
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Search with the
keyword NEAR, rather than AND,
for words close to each other. For example, both of
these queries, budget and analyst
and budget near analyst, look for
the words budget and analyst on
the same page. But with NEAR, the
returned pages are ranked in order of proximity: The
closer together the words are, the higher the rank
of that page.
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Refine your queries
with the AND NOT keywords to
exclude certain text from your search. For example,
if you want to find all instances of surfing
but not the Net, write the following query:
surfing
AND NOT the Net
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Add the OR
keyword to find all instances of either one word or
another, for example:
Abbott
OR Costello
This query finds all pages that
mention Abbott or Costello or both.
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Put quotation marks
around keywords if you want the search engine to
take them literally. For instance, if you type the
following query:
"budget near
analyst"
The search engine will literally look for the
complete phrase budget near analyst. But if
you type the same query without the quotation marks:
budget near analyst
The search engine searches all documents for the
words budget and analyst.
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