Text Search

Use this form to search for documents in this web containing specific words or combinations of words. The text search engine will display a weighted list of matching documents, with better matches shown first. Each list item is a link to a matching document; if the document has a title it will be shown, otherwise only the document's file name is displayed. A brief explanation of the query language is available, along with examples.

Query Language

The text search engine allows queries to be formed from arbitrary Boolean expressions containing the keywords AND, OR, and NOT, and grouped with parentheses. For example:

steel round

finds documents containing 'steel' or 'round'

steel or round

same as above

steel and round

finds documents containing both 'steel' and 'round'

steel not round

finds documents containing 'steel' but not 'round'

(steel not round) and brass

finds documents containing 'brass', plus 'steel' but not 'round'

polished*

finds documents containing words starting with 'polished'

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