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Help With SearchingTo do a simple search of our site, simply enter a word or phrase (search query) in the box on the Search Plus page and press the Search button. No special characters or operators are needed. However, to conduct a more effective search, you need to understand how the search engine interprets the search query. For example, by entering the word region, the actual word region and all its stemmed variations (such as regions and regional) are found. The search results are ranked for "importance," which means how close the matched word comes to the originally input search criteria. In the example above, region would rank higher than any of the stemmed variants. What is AssumedThe search engine makes certain assumptions that dictate how it interprets your search query. In some cases, you can circumvent the assumptions, but here is how the search engine decides what to include in the search results:Case Sensitivity--Search ignores the case of your search query if all the letters in the query are of the same case. You may force the search engine to match the case of your query by mixing the case (upper and lower case) of the letters in your query or by enclosing it in parentheses or quotation marks. Stemming--Search finds all documents that contain any stemmed variant of the search word or phrase. The search engine looks at the meaning of the word, not just its spelling. For example, if you want to search on plan, the results would include documents that contain planning and plans, but not those that contain plane or planet. You may disable stemming by enclosing your search query in parentheses or quotation marks. Relevancy--Search considers how often the search word or phrase appear in the found documents and ranks the results for frequency and exactness. Relevancy is disabled when searching document titles. Phrases--Search considers words separated by spaces to be part of a phrase. For example, Monterey otter is interpreted as a phrase and both must be present and together to be found. Such a search would not find documents containing sea otter or Monterey Bay. You may force a search of the individual words in your search query by inserting commas or the operator OR between the words.
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