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Case:

The search engine is case insensitive so the query discharge valve will return the same results as Discharge Valve, DISCHARGE VALVE or even DiScHaRgE VaLvE.

Keyword Search:

Multiple search words return any documents with both words anywhere in the document. The query discharge valve will return all documents containing the words discharge and valve. For example, documents with the phrases "The discharge valve is blue.", "Discharge valve replacement strategy" or "Supervisors may discharge employees for failing to close the valve." would all match this query. This type of search will return the same results as the Boolean discharge AND valve.

Phrase Search:

Phrases in quotations are searched for exactly, so the query, "discharge valve" will only return documents containing discharge valve in a phrase. For example, the phrase "The discharge valve is blue." would match this query, but the phrase "Supervisors may discharge employees for failing to close the valve." would not.

Boolean Searches:

The query, discharge AND NOT valve will return documents containing discharge but not valve. The query discharge AND valve will return documents containing both the words discharge and valve The query, discharge OR valve will return documents containing discharge and also documents containing valve.

Proximity Searches:

The query, discharge NEAR valve will return documents containing the word discharge near the word valve.

Advanced Searches:

The query @size > 1000 will return all documents with a size greater than 1KB. The query #filename *.doc will return only word documents. The query @write > 01/2/1 10:00:00 will return only documents modified since the 1st Feb 2001 at 12:00am. The query dis* will return all documents containing dis as part of a word, i.e. Discharge, Distance and so on.

Exceptions:

'Noise' words:

These are common words such as: an, and, as and others. These words will be ignored by the search engine unless they are part of a Boolean search.

Punctuation marks:

Punctuation marks such as: ; (semicolon), : (colon), . (full stop/period), , (comma) and others are ignored by the search engine.

Special Characters:

To use specially treated characters such as &, |, ^, #, @, $, (, ), in a query, enclose your query in quotation marks (“).