Use the form below to search for documents in this web site containing specific words or combinations of words. The search engine will display a weighted list of matching documents, with the best matches being shown first. Each list item is a link to a matching document; if the document has a title it will be shown, otherwise only the document's file name is displayed. A brief explanation of the query language is available, along with examples.

Query Language

The search engine uses words entered by you to search for documents and files with matching values.  By using keywords, such as AND, OR, and NOT, you can narrow your searches to allow the search engine to make a more narrow search. For example:

information retrieval

finds documents containing the words 'information' or 'retrieval'

information or retrieval

same as above

information and retrieval

finds documents that contain the both of the words 'information' and 'retrieval'

information not retrieval

finds documents that contain the word 'information' but not 'retrieval'

(information not retrieval) and WAIS

finds documents containing 'WAIS', that also contain the word 'information' but not the word 'retrieval'

web*

finds documents containing words starting with 'web'.  You can also modify this search by adding the * in different places of a word.  *ing would search for documents where words that ended in 'ing' existed. th*gh would list documents that have words that start with 'th' and end with 'gh', such as 'through' or 'though'

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