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a number of different methods for performing searches.
Description Search
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information that you want. For example, "Web server performance enhancements."
Question Search
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you want answered. For example, "How do I increase the performance
of my Web server?"
Keyword Search
List important keywords
relevant to your search topic. For example, "enhance improve performance
server web"
Boolean Keyword
Search
Refine a keyword search
using boolean operators.
| Symbol |
Meaning |
Action |
| & |
AND |
Finds
only documents containing all of the specific words or phrases. For
example, "performance & server" finds documents
with both the word "performance" and the word "server". |
| | |
OR |
Finds
documents containing at least one of the specified words or phrases.
For example, "performance | server" finds documents
containing either "performance" or "server". The
found documents could contain both, but do not have to. |
| ! |
AND
NOT |
Excludes
documents containing the specific word or phrase. For example, "performance
! server" finds documents containing "performance"
but not containing "server". As with the & and | operators,
! must appear between two terms. |
| [
] |
Grouping |
Used
to group portions of boolean queries together for more complicated
queries. For example, "performance & [improve | increase]
! Microsoft" finds documents containing "performance"
and either "improve" or "increase but not "Microsoft". |
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