Search Methods
WebSTAR Search supports a number of different methods for performing
searches.
Description Search
Simply describe the information that you want. For example, "Web
server performance enhancements."
Question Search
Ask a question that you want answered. For example, "How do
I increase the performance of my Web server?"
Keyword Search
List important keywords relevant to your search topic. For example,
"enhance improve performance server web"
Boolean Keyword Search
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". |
Similar Document Search
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.