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Click on a search term to find a more detailed explanation.
Structured documents, like Web pages using HTML, contain fields that can
be searched in addition to the contents of the body of the document.
Fields available for searching include title,
snippet (the first 400 printable characters in a
document), mime-type (plain, HTML, or PDF),
url, author, subject,
and keywords.
An HTML zone refers to a region of text within an HTML document that
is defined to be the text assigned to an HTML tag. Thus, an HTML
document has as many zones as the tags it contains. You can search in
any named HTML zone, such as <TITLE>, <BODY>, <H1>, or
<H2>.
You can search for terms that contain
punctuation marks. You can also nest query terms within other query terms to build
precise queries.
Verity's Search Tips Table of
Contents
Combining Terms
Search Term
Finds Pages That Contain… meet
The string meet and stemmed
variations, such as meets, met, and meeting
"meet"
The word meet "AT&T"
The strings AT&T, A T & T, and ATT
(always
enclose words like AT&T in double quotation marks)
<CASE>
DOE
The string DOE in upper case
<CASE>
Green
The string Green with first letter capitalized
assistive
technologies
The phrase assistive technologies
comput*
Words beginning with the string comput
beilst??n
Words beginning with beilst and ending with n with any
two
characters in between
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Field Searches
Search Term
Finds Pages That Contain…
biology
OR life science
The word biology or the phrase life science
database
AND engineering
Both of
the words database and engineering
database,
resource,
engineering
Any of the words database, resource, and
engineering. The more
instances of these words in a page, the higher it appears in the results list.
bank
NOT river
The word
bank but not the word river
HTML
<NEAR>
publishing
The word HTML close to the word publishing
HTML
<SENTENCE>
publishing
The word
HTML in the same sentence as the word publishing
HTML
<PARAGRAPH>
publishing
The word HTML in the same paragraph as the word publishing
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Zone Searches
Search Term
Finds Pages That Contain…
title
<CONTAINS>
engineering
The word engineering in the title field
snippet
<CONTAINS>
agricola
The word agricola within the first 400 printable characters of
the
document
mime-type
<CONTAINS>
pdf
PDF documents only
url
<CONTAINS> staff
The word staff in the url field
subject
<CONTAINS> internet
The word internet in the subject field
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Advanced Tips
Search Term
Finds Pages That Contain
(agriculture)
<IN>
title
Stemmed variations of the word agriculture in the title zone
(compendex)
<IN>
body
Stemmed variations of the word compendex in the body zone
(database)
<IN>
h1
Stemmed variations of the word database in the first-level
header
(h1) zone
(government)
<IN>
h2
Stemmed variations of the word database in the second-level
header
(h2) zone
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Search Term
Finds Pages That Contain…
he/she
The phrase he/she
o\'connell
The name
o'connell
verity OR
search AND libraries
Stemmed variations of search and libraries on the same page
or
stemmed variations of verity
(engineering
OR technology) AND database
Stemmed variations of engineering or technology and stemmed
variations of database
((engineering
OR technology) AND database) OR compendex
Stemmed variations of engineering or technology and stemmed
variations
of database on the same page or stemmed variations of
compendex
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