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Tips for a search by word or phrase
To carry out a search by word or phrase,
enter the relevant words/phrases into the data-entry zone, separated
by spaces. This is the simplest form of search.
In order to streamline the search and make it more effective,
you can :
Search for words with the same prefix
Enter the first letters of a word and add a
* (asterisk).
For example: a search for "par*" is likely to find words like Paris,
park, parking, ...
Search for a group of words
For this, you must use comparatives such as AND,
NEAR, AND NOT, or OR.
For example, typing in sport AND youth will find texts which deal
with both sport and youth.
Using NEAR instead of AND (sport NEAR youth) will
find the same texts but according to closeness. The results will be displayed
according to their closeness: the closer the words are on the page, the
higher up the list they will be.
You can even refine your queries by using the terms AND NOT in
order to exclude certain words from the search field. Let's say you want
to find all the occurrences of transport but not when it is linked with
public. For this, use the following:
Transports AND NOT public
The term OR is used in order to find all the occurrences
of one word or another, for example:
Eiffel OR Montparnasse
This request will come back with every page
where either Eiffel or Montparnasse is mentioned, or both.
Place " " (speech marks) around a group
of words if you wish the search engine to consider it as a
whole phrase and not as a collection of words for which to
search.
The following request:
"Parc des Princes"
will only concern the name of the stadium.
But the same request without speech marks:
Parc des Princes
will look for documents containing the words parc and princes, without
them necessarily following on from each other.
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