To find information about a topic, simply type in a few keywords. The more detailed your query, the more relevant your results.

Our search engine also comes with some advanced capabilities to help you find exactly what you're looking for. These capabilities are best shown with a few examples:

Translated: require Web, require designing

Finds "Web Designing", "Web designing", and "designing for the Web".
Does not find the lowercase "web designing", nor the abbreviated "Web design".

Translated: forbid Web, require designing

Finds "Newspaper designing", "Clothes designing", and lowercase "web designing".
Does not find "Web pages" nor "Web designing".

Translated: prefer Web, require designing

Finds "Clothes designing", "Web designing", and "Web Designing".
Documents with both terms appear higher in the list.

Translated: require the phrase "Web designing"

Finds "Web designing".
Does not find "Web Designing" nor "designing for the Web".

Translated: require web (case insensitive), require words starting with "design"

Finds "Web design", "web designing", "WEB designer".
The asterisk is a wildcard representing any four or fewer characters.

Translated: require Web (case sensitive), require design, forbid script, prefer authoring

First lists "Web authoring and design", then "Web design".
Does not list lowercase "web design", nor forbidden "designing a Web script".

Translated: ignores common words like where, is, and the - requires words containing "web"

Finds "web", "worldwideweb", "spiderweb", and "websurfer".
To suppress the ignore feature, use quotes, as in "Where is the *web*?".

Note on case sensitivity - only words or phrases containing an upper case character will be treated as case sensitive. A search on "web" will match "Web", "WEB", and "weB", while the term "WEB" matches only its uppercase version.

The asterisk is a powerful search tool, but has some limitations. It cannot span words - that is, the query "powerfu*earch" would not match the first sentence of this paragraph - 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 alpha-numeric characters. A search for "th*" would be ignored.

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