Search help
The query specifies only one term for retrieving all documents which
contain the term. e.g.,
sacrament
The query specifies two or more terms for retrieving all documents which
contain both terms. You can insert the and operator
between the terms. e.g.,
sacrament and confirmation
You can omit the and operator. Terms which
is separated by one ore more spaces is assumed to be AND query.
The query specifies two or more terms for retrieving all documents which
contain either term. You can insert the or operator
between the terms. e.g.,
baptism or confirmation
The query specifies two or more terms for retrieving all documents which
contain a first term but doesn't contain the following terms. You can insert
the not operator between the terms to do
NOT query. e.g.,
sacrament not baptism
You can group queries by surrounding them by parentheses. The parentheses
should be separated by one or more spaces. e.g.,
( sacrament or rite) and initiation not baptism
You can search for a phrase which consists of two or more terms by surrounding
them with double quotes like "..." or with
braces like {...}. The precision of phrase
searching is not 100 %, so it causes wrong results occasionally. e.g.,
{sacrament of initiation}
The are three types of substring matching searching.
- Prefix matching
inter* (terms which begin with inter)
- Inside matching
*text* (terms which contain text)
- Suffix matching
*net (terms which terminated with net)
- In any queries, the search engine ignores case distinctions of alphabet
characters. In other words, the search engine does case-insensitive pattern
matching in any time.
- The search engine can handle a term which contains symbols like
Choir/Music.
Since this handling isn't complete, you can describe Choir and
Music instead, but it may cause noisy results.
- Substring matching and field-specified searching takes more time than
other methods.
- If you want to use
and, or or not simply as terms, you can surround them respectively
with double quotes like "..." or braces like {...}.
