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Example:
Searching for jalapeno pepper ? Enter "jalapeno pepper" - with quotation marks -
The * (asterisk)
character is used as the wildcard character. Searching for *her* will find the words here,
whether, together, gathering, and any other word that contains her
anywhere in the word. 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. Capitalize
proper nouns. Lowercase words will match any case. For example, typing search
will return all documents containing the words search, Search,and SEARCH.
However, typing Chandler will only return item Chandler - not chandler.
or select search type, "exact phrase".
Wildcards
Example: Entering chic* will find pages containing chicken,
chickens, chickpea, chicory, etc
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 plus (+) or minus (-)
Note: A phrase must be contained within quotation marks. Leave no spaces between the plus
or minus sign and the term.
Use appropriate capitalization
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