Classifieds Search Help

The searchterm area on Classifieds search forms allows you to provide sophisticated full-text searches. These capabilities include:

• Booleans

• Parentheses

• Proximity matching

• Relevance ranking of matches

• Highlighting matched terms

Note: Words provided in searchterms are not case sensitive. That is, they will match words in documents even if the case is different. Also, words may match synonyms of the words.

Searchterm Examples

Below are some examples of how to use the searchterm field with explanations for each.

1. elvis

   This searchterm will match documents that have the word elvis (with any capitalization) or any synonym of elvis. The word

2. elvis graceland

   This searchterm matches documents containing the word elvis or the word graceland. They do not have to be beside each other.

   Note: This search is the same as the following search.

3. elvis OR graceland

   This will match documents the same as (2) above.

4. elvis AND graceland

   This will match documents that contain both the words elvis and graceland, or any of their synonyms.

5. "Elvis Presley"

   Use of quotes turns on the proximity operator. This means that the words within the quotes must be adjacent to each other.

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