Use the form below to search for documents in this web containing specific words or combinations of words

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Use the form below 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.

Enter keywords or a phrase below

Search Tips

The search engine uses free-form full-text technology, yet it also understands Boolean syntax as well, for more advanced searches.

Operator	Usage	Comments
SPACE	apple banana	Read as 'apple AND banana'.
AND	apple AND banana	Upper case is operator, Lower case is ignored
&	apple & banana	The & character is read as 'AND'
OR	apple OR banana	Upper case is operator, Lower case is ignored
\|	apple \| banana	The \| character is read as 'OR'
NOT	apple AND NOT banana	Upper case is operator, Lower case is ignored
~	apple & ~ banana	'& ~' is read as 'AND NOT'
XOR	apple XOR banana	XOR is read as 'exclusive or'
^	apple ^ banana	The ^ character is read as XOR
[..]	[apple banana orange]	MOST of these

Example searches

You can type a question as you would pose the question verbally.
How do I prepare my taxes
[ Common words (how, do, I, and my) are ignored. The resultant query would be 'prepare AND taxes' ]

Or you could just type in a keyword query.
apple banana
[ The resultant query would be 'apple AND banana'
(AND is the default operator) ]

Or, you could type in a Boolean query.
apple OR ( banana AND NOT jello XOR [ spam ham chicken ] )
[ The IndexMySite engine recognizes AND, OR, NOT, XOR and nested parenthesis ]

We also have a shorthand Boolean syntax.
apple | ( banana & ~ jello ^ [ spam ham chicken ] ) )
[ This means the same as the preceding query ]

Our MOST OF operator finds documents with most of the terms you list within brackets.
[apple dumpling pie ice cream dessert]
[ Finds documents with more than 60% of these words ]

ANY, ALL, MOST

If the query does not contain expressed Boolean operators (AND, OR, NOT, etc) then Indexmysite supplies them automatically. The user may direct Indexmysite to use one of the following operators:

Selection	Result	Example
ANY	Uses the OR Boolean Operator	apple banana becomes apple OR banana
ALL	Uses the AND Boolean Operator	apple banana becomes apple AND banana
MOST	Matches at least 60% of [query terms].	4 or less terms defaults to AND

Stemming

IndexMySite uses the root stems of search terms. For example, if you seach for 'preparation', IndexMySite actually searches for 'prepar' and will find occurances of: prepare, prepares, prepared, preparing, and preparation.

Case, punctuation and other things

IndexMySite ignores CASE. So searching for Cherries, cherries, or CHERRIES, would all give the same results.
Punctuation characters are ignored, as are extraneous whitespace characters.

Ranking (Sort order)

IndexMySite uses a number of criteria to determine ranking. If the search term is an 'Important' word in the document, the document will appear higher in the list. Importance is determined by the following:

word frequency
If the search term is used in the document frequently.
word CASE
If the word is capitalized in the document
word in Title
If the word appears in the document Title
emphasized word
If the word is bolded, in a heading, with a larger font, etc.

Sort by date

If the documents in the index contain date information, this option will order the documents by date - the newest document listed first. Date information is extracted from the document header information (TITLE, META DESCRIPTION, or META DC.Date). If two documents have the same date, the more relevant document is listed first.

Reverse Sort

Indexmysite is one of the only search engines which lets you sort in reverse order. This would be helpful if you are looking for the oldest document instead of the newest. Or perhaps you want to see which documents most people overlook with traditional sort order search engines. NOTE: The indexmysite search engine returns the best 200 documents. In reverse sort mode, the bottom, or worst matching 200 documents are returned. For example, if the query matches 4000 documents, in normal mode, documents 1 through 200 are returned. In reverse sort mode, the bottom 200 (4000 through 3980) are returned.