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Search Help To find information about a topic, simply type in a few keywords. The more detailed your query, the more relevant your results.

Our search engine also comes with some advanced capabilities to help you find exactly what you're looking for. These capabilities are best shown with a few examples:

Translated: require bass, require fishing
Finds "bass fishing" and "fishing for bass".
Does not find "bass fish".


Translated: forbid largemouth, require smallmouth
Finds "smallmouth bass" and "pregnant smallmouth".
Does not find "largemouth bass".


Translated: prefer bass, require largemouth
Finds "keeper largemouth", "largemouth bass", and just "largemouth".
Documents with both terms appear higher in the list.


Translated: require the phrase "BASS tournament"
Finds "BASS tournament".
Does not find "bass tournaments", or "Bass tournament" nor "bass tournaments".


Translated: require bass (case insensitive), require words starting with "fish"
Finds "BASS fishing", "bass fishing", "bass fisheries".
The asterisk is a wildcard representing any four or fewer characters.


Translated: require Venus (case sensitive), require pictures, forbid planet, prefer images
First lists "pictures and images of Venus", then "Venus pictures".
Does not list lowercase "venus picture", nor forbidden "picture of planet Venus".


Translated: ignores common words like where, is, and the - requires words containing "frog"
Finds "frog", "frogleg", and "bullfrog".
To suppress the ignore feature, use quotes, as in "Where is the *frog*?".


Note on case sensitivity - only words or phrases containing an upper case character will be treated as case sensitive. A search on "usa" will match "Usa", "USA", and "usA", while the term "USA" matches only its uppercase version.

The asterisk is a powerful search tool, but has some limitations. It cannot span words - that is, the query "powerfu*earch" would not match the first sentence of this paragraph - and it can represent at most four letters or numbers. To avoid overly broad searches, the asterisk can only be used in words or phrases which have at least three alpha-numeric characters. A search for "th*" would be ignored.

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