To find information about a topic, simply type in a few keywords. The more detailed your query, the more relevant your results.
Our search engine also comes with some advanced capabilities to help you find exactly what you're looking for. These capabilities are best shown with a few examples:
Translated: require LONGWY, require faience
- Finds "LONGWY Faience", "LONGWY Faience", and "faience of LONGWY".
Does not find the lowercase "LONGWY Faience", nor the abbreviated "LONGWY faienc".
Translated: forbid LONGWY, require faience
- Finds "Deck faience", "Gien faience", and lowercase "Longwy faience".
Does not find "LONGWY enamel" nor "LONGWY faience".
Translated: prefer LONGWY, require faience
- Finds "Deck faience", "LONGWY faience", and "LONGWY Faience".
Documents with both terms appear higher in the list.
Translated: require the phrase "LONGWY faience"
- Finds "LONGWY faience".
Does not find "LONGWY Faience" nor "faience of LONGWY".
Translated: require Longwy (case insensitive), require words starting with "faien"
- Finds "LONGWY faience", "deck faience", "Gien faience".
The asterisk is a wildcard representing any four or fewer characters.
Translated: require Gien (case sensitive), require faience, forbid Longwy, prefer enamels
- First lists "faience and enamels of Gien", then "Gien faience".
Does not list lowercase "gien faience", nor forbidden "faience of Longwy Gien".
Translated: ignores common words like where, is, and the - requires words containing "frog"
- Finds "frog", "frogleg", and "bullfrog".
To suppress the ignore feature, use quotes, as in "Where is the *frog*?".
Note on case sensitivity - only words or phrases containing an upper case character will be treated as case sensitive.
A search on "usa" will match "Usa", "USA", and "usA", while the term "USA" matches only its uppercase version.
The asterisk is a powerful search tool, but has some limitations. It cannot span words - that is, the query "powerfu*earch" would not match the first sentence of this paragraph - 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 alpha-numeric characters. A search for "th*" would be ignored.
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