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To enter a query, type in a few descriptive words and press the Enter key or click the Search button for a list of relevant results. The search application uses sophisticated text-matching techniques to find pages that are both important and relevant to your search. For instance, it analyzes not only the candidate page, but also the pages linking into it to determine the value of the candidate page for your search. It also prefers pages in which your query terms are near each other. A single spelling suggestion is returned with the results for queries where the spell checker has detected a possible spelling mistake. Synonyms are other words that have the same or similar meanings. They are displayed as "You could also try..." on the results page. The Sort by Date feature sorts and presents your search results based on date. The date of each file is returned in the results. Results that do not contain dates are displayed at the end, sorted by relevance. By default, the search function only returns pages that include all of your search terms. There is no need to include "and" between terms. For example, to search for engineering product specification documents, enter “engineering product specifications”. To broaden or restrict the search, include fewer or more terms. The logical "OR" operator is supported. To retrieve pages that include either word A or word B, use an uppercase "OR" between terms. For example, to search for an office in either London or Paris, enter: “office london OR paris” See Your Search Terms in the Results Every Google search result lists one or more excerpts from the web page to display how your search terms are used in context on that page. In the excerpt, your search terms are displayed in bold text so that you can quickly determine if that result is from a page you want to visit. Searches are not case sensitive. All letters, regardless of how you enter them, are understood as lower case. For example, searches for "Stora Enso," "Stora enso," and "stora enso" all return the same results. To provide the most accurate results, "stemming" or "wildcard" searches are not supported. Rather, searches for exactly the words that you enter into the search box are made. For example, searching for "airlin" or "airlin*" will not yield "airline" or "airlines". If in doubt, try both forms, for example: "airline" and "airlines." Since only web pages that contain all of the words in your query are returned, refining or narrowing your search is as simple as adding more words to the search terms you have already entered. The refined query returns a specific subset of the pages that were returned by your original broad query. You can exclude a word from your search by putting a minus sign ("-") immediately in front of the term you want to exclude. Make sure you include a space before the minus sign. For example, the search: ”bass-music” will return pages about bass that do not contain the word "music." You can search for phrases by adding quotation marks. Words enclosed in double quotes ("like this") appear together in all returned documents. Phrase searches using quotation marks are useful when searching for famous sayings or specific names. Certain characters serve as phrase connectors. Phrase connectors work like quotes because they join your search words in the same way double quotes join your search words. For example, the search: ”father-in-law” is treated as a phrase search even though the search words are not enclosed in double quotes. Hyphens, slashes, periods, equal signs, and apostrophes are recognized as phrase connectors. Google Search supports several advanced operators, which are query words with special functions. A list of the advanced operators with explanation are provided below. allintitle: If you start a query with , the results are restricted to documents with all of the query words in the document's HTML title. For example, only returns documents that have both "stora" and "enso" in the HTML title. intitle: If you include in your query, the search is restricted to results with documents containing that word in the HTML title. For example, returns documents that mention the word "Stora" in their HTML title, and mention the word "Enso" anywhere in the document either in the title or anywhere else in the document. Note: There can be no space between the "intitle:" and the following word. |
