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The Verity search engine on your site has some powerful capabilities to find variations on words and phrases, and to use wildcards. It's a good idea to include a "search tips" page on your site and link to it from your results page.
Words, Phrases and Word Variations Unlike many web search engines, several words with spaces between them are interpreted as a phrase. To search for several words appearing separately, insert a comma between each word. Verity also searches automatically for variations on the words you enter -- known as "stemming".
Example | Search result | low,brass,instrument | low or brass or instrument | low brass instrument | the phrase: low brass instrument | film | film, films, filming, or filmed | Using AND, OR and NOT You can use AND, OR and NOT to give the search engine more specific instructions on which word combinations you're looking for. If you use combinations of these operators, you might want to use parentheses to specify how they're to be interpreted.
Example | Search result | filming AND fun | film, films, filming, or filmed, and fun | filming OR fun | film, films, filming, or filmed, or fun | filming NOT fun | film, films, filming, or filmed, but not fun | "filming and fun" | the phrase: filming and fun | filming OR fun AND camera | filming, or the combination of fun and camera | filming OR (filming AND camera) | filming, or the combination of fun and camera | (filming OR fun) AND camera | either filming or fun, and camera | filming OR fun NOT camera | either filming or fun, but not camera | Using Wildcards A question mark (?) matches any single alphanumeric character, while an asterisk (*) matches zero or more alphanumeric characters. Avoid using the asterisk as the first character in a search string.
Example | Search result | apple? | apples or applet | app*ed | Appleseed, applied, appropriated, and so on. | If you need to search for a wildcard character itself (as a literal), place a backslash character before it; for example: - To match a question mark or other wildcard character, precede the ? with one backslash. For example, type the following in a search form: Checkers\?
- To match a literal asterisk, you precede the * with two backslashes, and enclose the search term with either single or double quotation marks. For example, type the following in a search form: 'M\\*' (or "M\\*")
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