Examples
You can search for a single word, like youth. Just type it into the "Look for" box up there. Then hit the "Go Get It!" button.
"youth ministry"
If you put quotes around a phrase, you get only pages containing that
exact phrase. In this example, you will get only pages with the exact phrase
youth ministry.
youth ministry
If you put two or more words in that box, without quotes, you will get pages
with any of them. If pages have all of them, they will be at the top. Example:
youth ministry finds all documents containing 'youth' or 'ministry', with
those having both 'youth' and 'ministry' at the top.
minis*
finds documents containing words starting with 'minis'. So, you'll see
pages with 'ministry', 'minister', 'miniseries', 'miniscule', etc.
Advanced Search Tips for KSearch 1.5b (Geek country)
- Default search content: is the body, title, and meta-description.
- Stop-terms are common terms like "it and the that...".
- Special characters like #!$%|&..etc. are allowed.
- ISO Latin-1 characters like äßçéñ..etc. are treated as English equivalents.
- Add + in front of terms/phrases that must appear in results.
- Add - in front of terms/phrases that must not appear in results.
- The + checkbox adds a plus in front of all terms/phrases for convenience.
- The score is the percentage of matching characters in a document
- Searching can be expanded with a wildcard (*).
Adding a * to the end of a term will match all endings. For example: 'test*' will match 'tests' 'tested' 'testing' etc.
Stop-terms are included in wildcard searches.
- Weights can be applied by adding <2-10000> in front of terms or phrases.
For example:
The query above will weight scores 100 and 500 times greater for documents containing 'term' and 'a phrase', respectively.
The scores for documents containing only 'none' will remain unchanged. The weight must be in the range of 2-10000.
Add + (inclusion) in front of weights. The results will be sorted by weighted scores.
- The following options can be placed in any order in front of the query:
c: for a case sensitive search.
w: to match whole words only.
st: to include stop-terms.
all: to add + in front of all terms/phrases.
match: score: date: size: title: or
name: for the sorting choice.
5-100: for the number of results to display per page.
b: to search the body (full text) of documents.
t: to search the title of documents.
u: to search the url of documents.
alt: to search the alternate text in documents.
l: to search the links in documents.
d: to search the meta-description in documents.
k" to search the meta-keywords in documents.
au: to search the meta-author in documents.
For example:
The query above will perform a case sensitive search for 'term' and 'a phrase' in the body, title, and meta-description of documents. 15 results will be displayed per page and the results will be sorted by file size.