Search Engine For The Megasite
Use the form below to search for webpages in this site containing specific words or combinations of words. The text search engine will display a weighted list of matching pages, with better matches shown first. Each list item is a link to a matching page; if the page has a title it will be shown, otherwise only the page's file name is displayed. A brief explanation of the query language is available, along with examples.
Query Language
The text search engine allows queries to be formed from arbitrary Boolean expressions containing the keywords AND, OR, and NOT, and grouped with parentheses. For example:
- information retrieval
- finds documents containing 'information' or 'retrieval'
- information or retrieval
- same as above
- information and retrieval
- finds documents containing both 'information' and 'retrieval'
- information not retrieval
- finds documents containing 'information' but not 'retrieval'
- (information not retrieval) and WAIS
- finds documents containing 'WAIS', plus 'information' but not 'retrieval'
- web*
- finds documents containing words starting with 'web'
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Updated 12/08/11
