Tips for Searching
At its simplest, a query can be just a word or a phrase. You
can, however, expand the focus of your query to give you more
complete results.
 Look
for words with the same prefix. For example, in your query
form type key* to find key, keying, keyhole, keyboard,
and so on.
Search
for all forms of a word. For example, in the form type sink**
to find sink, sinking, sank, and sunk.
Search
with the keyword NEAR, rather than AND, for words close
to each other. For example, both of these queries, hotel AND camping
and hotel NEAR camping, look for the words hotel and camping 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.
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 surfing but not surfing the Net, write the following
query:
surfing AND NOT the Net
Add
the OR keyword to find all instances of either one
word or another, for example:
Tom OR Jerry
This query finds all pages that mention Tom or Jerry or both.
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