* Check spelling - Make sure your search terms are spelled
correctly. The search engine will attempt to find words that
sound similar your search terms, but it is always best to spell
the search terms correctly.
* Use multiple words - Use multiple words when performing
your search. More words for a search will return more refined
results than a search from a single word.
* Use similar words - The more similar words you use in a
search, the more relevant results will be to the words that you
are searching for.
* Use appropriate capitalization - Use capitalization when
looking for proper nouns such as the name of a person or place.
Lowercase words will match any words of any case.
* Use quotation marks around phrases - Use quotation marks
to find words that must appear adjacent to each other within
a phrase. For example, search for "Indira Gandhi" within
quotes rather than just Indira Gandhi.
* Use Boolean plus (+) or minus (-) operators - Precede a
search term or phrase with a plus (+) sign to indicate it must
appear in a search result. Precede a search term with a minus
(-) sign to indicate an undesirable search term or phrase that
must not appear in a search result. For example, searching for
+dogs -collie will return results that are about dogs, but not
about collies.
* Use field searches - Field searches allow you to search
for words that appear in a specific part of a document such as
the body text (body:), title text (title:), alt text (alt:),
meta description (desc:), meta keywords (keys:) or URL (url:).
The field name should include the colon and precede the search
word or phrase with no spaces between them. For example, searching
for title:presidents will find pages with presidents in the title
of the page.
