Keywords
Use as many keywords as possible to get the most accurate search results. Results
are returned when they contain ALL of the listed keywords.
Capitalization
Searches are case-insensitive, meaning that it does not matter whether words are spelled
using capitalization or not. For example, searching for
DOCTOR is equivalent to searching
for
doctor.
Advanced Searching
Boolean Operators
The terms
and,
or, and
not may be used between keywords to form more complex
queries. For example, searching for
duke and hospital would return results that had
both the terms
duke and
hospital in them. Searching for
duke or hospital would return
pages that had either
duke or
hospital in them. Searching for
duke and not hospital would
return pages that have
duke in them, but not have
hospital in them.
Note that the
not keyword can only be used in
and expressions. It is not valid
to search on
not duke or
duke or not hospital.
Phrase Searching
It is possible to search for an exact phrase by enclosing the phrase in double-quotes.
For example, searching for
"duke hospital" will only match pages that contain the phrase
duke hospital, whereas searching for
duke hospital (without the quotes) is equivalent to searching for
duke and hospital and would match any pages that contain both individual words.
Wildcards
In general searches are for whole words. An asterisk can be used as a wildcard at the end of a word. For example, searching for
sick* would match pages containing any of the words
sick,
sickness,
sickly, etc. Searching for
sick only matches pages containing the exact word
sick.
