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Press Release Search Tips
This search engine helps you find press releases on this web site. Here's
how it works: you tell the search service what you're looking for by typing
in keywords, phrases, or questions in the search box. The most relevant
press releases will appear at the top of your results.
More Basics - An Overview
What is a Word?
When searching, think of a word as a combination of letters and numbers.
The search service needs to know how to separate words and numbers to find
exactly what you want on the Internet. You can separate words using white
space and tabs.
What is a Phrase?
You can link words and numbers together into phrases if you want specific
words or numbers to appear together in your result pages. If you want to
find an exact phrase, use "double quotation marks" around the
phrase when you enter words in the search box.
Example #1: To find lyrics by the King, type "you ain't nothing but
a hound dog" in the search box. You can also create phrases using punctuation
or special characters such as dashes, underscore lines, commas, slashes,
or dots.
Example #2: Try searching for 1-800-999-9999 instead of 1 800 999 9999.
The dashes link the numbers together as a phrase.
Simple Tips for More Exact Searches
Searches are case insensitive. Searching for "Fur" will match
the lowercase "fur" and uppercase "FUR".
By default, all searches are accent insensitive as well, but administrators
can change this setting. Accent sensitivity relates to Latin characters
like õ.
Including or excluding words:
To make sure that a specific word is always included in your search topic,
place the plus (+) symbol before the key word in the search box. To make
sure that a specific word is always excluded from your search topic, place
a minus (-) sign before the keyword in the search box.
Example: To find recipes for cookies with oatmeal but without raisins,
try "recipe cookie +oatmeal -raisin".
Expand your search using wildcards (*):
By typing an * within a keyword, you can match up to four letters.
Example: Try wish* to find wish, wishes, or wishful.
Searching for web addresses:
If your search term is a URL, like "http://www.yahoo.com/", some
search engines will redirect you directly to the URL. To avoid this behavior,
and do an actual search with the URL as the search term, enclose the URL
in double-quotes.
Fancy Features for Typical Searches
You can search more than just text. Here are all of the other ways you
can search on the net:
link:address
Finds pages that link to the specified address, or a substring of it. Use
link:microsoft.com to find all pages linking to Microsoft sites. Note: this
feature is not implemented on all search engines.
text:text
Finds pages that contain the specified text in any part of the page other
than an image tag, link, or URL. The search text:cow9 would find all pages
with the term cow9 in them.
title:text
Finds pages that contain the specified word or phrase in the page title
(which appears in the title bar of most browsers). The search title:Elvis
would find pages with Elvis in the title.
url:text
Finds pages with a specific word or phrase in the URL. Use url:altavista
to find all pages on all servers that have the word altavista in the host
name, path, or filename - the complete URL, in other words.
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