Search Basics |
The Office of Administrative Law Judges uses Verity search software. The
following is a brief overview of the most basic search operators available for use in Verity. See
the Search Tips Manual for
more detail and information
on other search operators and strategies.
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BASIC OPERATORS: AND, OR, NOT
Sample: repetitive AND stress NOT disorder
- searches for documents with the words repetitive and stress, but not disorder
Note: use commas as alternative to the OR operator
Sample: repetitive, stress, disorder
- searches for documents with the words repetitive or stress or disorder
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PROXIMITY SEARCH OPERATORS: <PARAGRAPH>, <SENTENCE>,
<NEAR>, <NEAR/N>
Sample: repetitive <NEAR/3> disorder
- searches for documents with the word repetitive within three words of disorder
Note: These operators require that you place angle brackets ( < > ) around the
operator
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EXACT WORD OR PHRASE: use quotation marks
Sample: "repetitive stress disorder"
- searches for the exact phrase repetitive stress disorder
Sample: "stress"
- searches for the word stress, and will not return stresses or other stemmed
variations
Note: Verity interprets as string of words as a request for a search for a phrase
Sample: repetitive stress disorder
- searches for the phrase, but will also search for stemmed variations (e.g., stress
and stresses)
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WILDCARDS: *, ?
Sample: disabl*
- Searches for any word starting with the letters disabl
Sample: fl??ss
- search finds pages that contain, for example, either Fleiss or Fliess.
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RESERVED CHARACTERS: , ( ) [ = > < ! ‘ @ ` < { [ !
The characters above are used by the search software. Thus, to search for a string tha
contains one of these characters, precede the character with a backslash.
Sample: rick\'s cafe
- Searches for Rick's cafe
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