SEARCH
THE SELECTIVE SERVICE SYSTEM WEB SITE
Use
this form to search for documents in this web containing specific
words or combinations of words. The text search engine will
display a weighted list of matching documents, with better
matches shown first. Each list item is a link to a matching
document; if the document has a title, it will be shown, otherwise
only the document's file name is displayed. A brief explanation
of the query language is available, along with examples.
Query
Language
The text search engine allows queries to be formed from arbitrary
Boolean expressions containing the keywords AND, OR, and NOT,
and grouped with parentheses. For example:
- information
retrieval
- finds
documents containing 'information' or 'retrieval'
-
- information
or retrieval
- same
as above
-
- information
and retrieval
- finds
documents containing both 'information' and 'retrieval'
-
- information
not retrieval
- finds
documents containing 'information' but not 'retrieval'
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- (information
not retrieval) and WAIS
- finds
documents containing 'WAIS', plus 'information' but not
'retrieval'
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- web*
- finds
documents containing words starting with 'web'
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