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All queries will be treated as an exact phrase search, meaning
that if you intend to search for 'United States of America' those words
must appear in that exact order in the documents.
and
If you wish to search for words located anywhere within the document in
no particular order you will need to use the and operator. For example,
to search for 'United States of America' with all of the words existing
in the document in any order, you would need to enter: United
and States and of and America.
or
A search using or between terms will match either one of the terms. For
example, to search for a recipe with either carrots or broccoli as ingredients
you would enter: recipe and carrots
or broccoli.
not
To exclude terms from your search, use not. To search for all the stories
about Venezuela that do not contain the word 'oil', for example, you would
enter: Venezuela not oil.
case sensitivity
Your searches will be case-insensitive unless you specify a case. The
query 'orange' will return 'Orange', 'orange' or even 'oRaNgE', whereas
the query 'Orange' will return only 'Orange'.
stemming
Also, your queries will be put through another useful feature of Verity
Information Server called the stem table. A query such as 'bank' will
return 'bank', 'banking', 'banked', 'banker' and 'banks' .
