WebSTAR Search - Search Using Template Example

Display the top 10 20 50 100 matches that score at least 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80% 90%

WebSTAR Search supports a number of different methods for performing searches.

Simply describe the information that you want. For example, " Web server performance enhancements. "

Ask a question that you want answered. For example, " How do I increase the performance of my Web server? "

List important keywords relevant to your search topic. For example, " enhance improve performance server web "

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".

After you perform an initial search, every matching document description will contain a " More like this " link that allows you to automatically search for similar documents.