Use plus (+) or minus (–)

  Use a plus sign when your search term or phrase must appear in the search results. Use a minus sign to indicate undesirable term(s). The plus sign tells the search engine that a certain word or phrase is required in the search results, and a minus sign indicates that a word or phrase must be absent in the search results.

  Note: A phrase must be contained within quotation marks. Leave no spaces between the plus or minus sign and the term.

  Note: Plus and minus can only be used when the "any" radio button is selected. Plus and minus are ignored if the "all" or "phrase" radio button is selected.

 Use quotation marks

  Use quotation marks to find words which must appear adjacent to each other, for example, "the exploration of intercultural philosophy". Otherwise, the search results will include the words the, exploration, of, intercultural, and philosophy, but not necessarily in that order. The words may appear anywhere, and in any order, within the document.

  Note: Quotes can only be used when the "any" radio button is selected. Quotes are ignored if the "all" or "phrase" radio button is selected.

Use appropriate capitalization

  Capitalize proper nouns. Lowercase words will match any case. For example, typing ethics will return all documents containing the words ethics, Ethics, and ETHICS. However, typing Ethics will only search for pages containing Ethics.

Use wildcards

  Wildcard searches can expand the number of matches for a particular request. The * character is used as the wildcard character. For instance, searching for wh* will find the words what, why, when, whether, and any other word that starts with wh. Searching for *her* will find the words here, whether, together, gathering, and any other word that contains her anywhere in the word.

  Wildcards may be combined with the standard plus (+) and minus (–) modifiers, quotes for phrases, as well as the field search specifiers. +wh* –se*ch will find all pages which have a word that starts with wh and which does not contain a word that starts with se and ends with ch. "wh* are" will find the phrases where are, what are, why are, etc.

Use multiple words

  Use multiple words when performing your search. The search results will return more refined results from several words than from a single word. For example, typing universal consensus will return more relevant results than typing only consensus. (When the "any" radio button is selected, results are returned even if they do not contain all query terms.)

Use similar words

  The more similar words you use in a search, the more relevant results you will get back.

Use section and field searches

  Section and field searches allow you to create specific searches for words that appear in a specific part of a document or a specific section of the website. Sections and fields are selected in the list box.

  A field search can also be realized by entering a word or phrase directly in the search box. It can be performed on body text (body:), title text (title:), alt text (alt:), meta description (desc:), meta key words (keys:) or URL (url:). The field name should be in lowercase and immediately followed by a colon. There should be no spaces between the colon and the search term.

  Note: The field searches can only be followed by a word or phrase. Phrases must be contained within quotation marks.

  Note: Field names can only be entered before a word or phrase when the "any" option is selected. Specific field names are ignored if any other field is selected in the list box.