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Keyword search You may enter a a word such as Celentis to find all documents containing this word, however, this may return one hundred found documents.  

Using AND If you wanted the Celentis products, you could try using AND e.g. Celentis AND products.  This query will search for documents containing both Celentis and products.

Using ""  Put quotation marks around keywords if you want the search engine to take them literally. For instance, if you type the following query:
"gene sequencing"

The search engine will literally look for the complete phrase gene sequencing. But if you type the same query without the quotation marks:
gene sequencing

the search engine searches all documents for the words gene sequencing.

Using * Look for words with the same prefix. For example, in your query form type key* to find key, keying, keyhole, keyboard, and so on.

Using ** Search for all forms of a word. For example, in the form type sink** to find sink, sinking, sank, and sunk.

Using NEAR Search with the keyword NEAR, rather than AND, for words close to each other. For example, both of these queries, system and manager and system near manager, look for the words system and manager on the same page. But with NEAR, the returned pages are ranked in order of proximity: The closer together the words are, the higher the rank of that page.

Using AND NOT Refine your queries with the AND NOT keywords to exclude certain text from your search. For example, if you want to find all instances of products  but not Agresearch, write the following query:

products AND NOT Agresearch

Using OR Add the OR keyword to find all instances of either one word or another, for example:

Celentis OR products

This query finds all pages that mention Celentis or Products or both.

 

Use Free Text Queries if you want to enter queries using natural language. The search engine will examine your query, extract nouns and noun phrases and construct a query for you. With free text queries you can enter any text you want, from a proper question, to a string of words and phrases, without worrying about the query language. For example, if you type in the following query:

"Please find Celentis products"

the search engine will create a query for you automatically and begin the search. Note that when you're using free text queries, the regular query language features are disabled and keywords such as AND, OR, and NEAR are interpreted as normal words.

 

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