Simply describe the information that you want. For example,
"Web server performance enhancements."
Question Search
Ask a question that you want answered. For example, "How
do I increase the performance of my Web server?"
Keyword Search
List important keywords relevant to your search topic.
For example, "enhance improve performance server web"
Boolean Keyword Search
Refine a keyword search using boolean operators.
| Symbol |
Meaning |
Action |
| & |
AND |
Finds only documents containing all of the specific words
or phrases. For example, "performance & server" finds
documents with both the word "performance" and the word "server". |
| | |
OR |
Finds documents containing at least one of the specified
words or phrases. For example, "performance | server"
finds documents containing either "performance" or "server".
The found documents could contain both, but do not have to. |
| ! |
AND NOT |
Excludes documents containing the specific word or phrase.
For example, "performance ! server" finds documents containing
"performance" but not containing "server". As with
the & and | operators, ! must appear between two terms. |
| [ ] |
Grouping |
Used to group portions of boolean queries together for more
complicated queries. For example, "performance & [improve |
increase] ! Microsoft" finds documents containing "performance"
and either "improve" or "increase but not "Microsoft". |
Similar Document Search
After you perform an initial search, every matching document
description will contain a "More like this" link that
allows you to automatically search for similar documents.