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Search for documents in this web containing specific words or combinations of words.
A brief explanation of the query language, with examples is available.
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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:

Query

Finds documents containing

information retrieval containing 'information' or 'retrieval'
information OR retrieval containing same as above
information and retrieval containing  'information' and 'retrieval'
information not retrieval containing 'information' but not 'retrieval'
(information not retrieval) and WAIS containing 'WAIS', plus 'information' but not 'retrieval'
web* words starting with 'web'

Revised: November 05, 2005 .
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