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Will only display listings that contain the word "internet"
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-web
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+internet -web
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Will only display listings that DO NOT contain the word "web"
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This will find all listings containing "internet", and will rank those that also contain the word "web" a bit higher. (since web is "preferred")
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Exactly match this phrase
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This will find all listings that contain the phrase "Internet Help". Note that using the quotes forces the engine into a case-sensitive search.
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Find all entries belonging to a given domain or matching a file name
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url:www.mysite.com
url:*asp
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The top example will return all entries in the www.mysite.com domain. The lower example shows how you could find every .asp page listed in the engine.
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Find all entries submitted by a person with this email address
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mailto:fred@mysite.co m
mailto:fred@mysi*
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This is a convenience search, if you know who posted a link (or want to see if a certain person has posted any links, this is how you'd find them.
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You can use the asterisk as a "wildcard" to match parts of a word. In our example, the search would return any listing with any word starting with "inter". The asterisk does have one limitation: it cannot span words - that is, the query "mat*arts" would not match the first sentence of this description - and it can represent at most four letters or numbers. To avoid overly broad searches, the asterisk can only be used in words or phrases which have at least three characters, so a search for "th*" or "an*" would be ignored.
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