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Keyword search supports the standard Boolean
operators and syntax: And; Or; Not; and related precedence operators such as
parenthesis "()" and quotes "''".
Keyword searching capabilities can search for:
* A word or phrase.
* The prefix of a word or phrase.
* A word that is near another word.
* A word that is inflectionally generated from another (for example, the word drive is the inflectional stem of drives, drove, driving, and driven.)
* A word that has a higher designated weighting than another word.
SEARCH RULES:
* Search is not case sensitive: you can type your query in uppercase or lowercase.
* You may search for any word except for those in the exception list (this includes a, an, and, as, and other common words). Words in the exception list are ignored during a search. Words in the exception list are treated as placeholders in Exact Phrase searches - phrases are words wrapped in quotes.
* To use specially-treated characters ( (&), (|), (^), (#), (@), ($), ((), ()) ) in a query, enclose your query in quotes (").
EXAMPLES
Note that the following examples can be used in conjunction with each other.
Single Words:
This example finds all items containing all of the following words.
java AND corba AND C++
Phrases:
This example returns all items that contain both phrases.
"Visual Basic" AND "SQL Server"
Complex Phrases:
This example returns all items that contain "Oracle" and one or more elements within the parenthesis.
Oracle and (DBA or "database admin*" or developer)
Prefix Term (wildcard):
This example returns all items with at least one word starting with the prefix.
"AS4*"
Near:
This example returns all items that have the first word near the second word.
design NEAR web
Inflection:
This example searches for all items with words of the form telecommute: telecommuted, telecommuting, telecommuter, and so on.
FORMSOF (INFLECTIONAL, telecommute)
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