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<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" [
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<!ENTITY date "$FreeBSD: www/en/search/searchhints.sgml,v 1.7 2002/03/16 08:07:46 murray Exp $">
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<!ENTITY title "Searching Hints">
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<!ENTITY % includes SYSTEM "../includes.sgml"> %includes;
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]>
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<html>
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&header;
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<h2>If you got lots of irrelevant results...</h2>
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<ol>
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<li>If you search for several words such as "<tt>quantum
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hard drives</tt>", an OR is implied meaning that to be
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counted as relevant, only one of the words has to appear
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in a message. To find only messages with all three
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words, change the search to "<tt>quantum and hard and
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drives</tt>"<p></p></li>
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<li>If you still get lots of irrelevant messages, see if
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they have something in common. If so, you can exclude
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them with the <tt>not</tt> operator. For example
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"<tt>quantum and hard and drives not ide</tt>" will
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exclude any messages about ide quantum hard drives.</li>
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</ol>
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<h2>If you do not think you received everything you should have...</h2>
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<ol>
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<li>If one of your keywords has variant forms, be sure to
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enter all relevant forms. If you are searching for
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"<tt>buslogic</tt>", you might change it to "<tt>buslogic
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or bustek</tt>".<p></p></li>
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<li>Words with varying suffixes can be wildcarded.
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Searching for "<tt>drive*</tt>" will pick up words such
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as <tt>drive</tt>, <tt>drives</tt>, <tt>driver</tt>,
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<tt>drivers</tt> and so on.<p></p></li>
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<li>Try discarding words that could be implied by the
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context of the message. For example "<tt>quantum and
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hard and drive</tt>" might miss some relevant messages
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that "<tt>quantum and drive</tt>" would get.</li>
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</ol>
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<hr>
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<a href="search.html">Return to the search page</a>
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&footer;
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</body>
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</html>
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