QuestAgent Search Tips

• Enter one or more keywords.
• Searches are not case sensitive.
• Use quotes to find an exact phrase, for example: "big cake".
• You can enter multiple keywords, such as good food. Or you can enter a Boolean expression, using AND, OR and NOT.
• Multiple keywords entered without a Boolean use the AND expression. Thus, entering good food is the same as entering good and food.
• You can use an expression like pizza or pie to find pages containing either keyword.
• You can also use parentheses in Boolean expressions. For example, you can enter (pizza and cheese) or pie.
• You can use the asterisk (*) as a suffix wildcard character in keywords. For example, enter cook* to find pages with keywords such as cook or cookery or cooking.
• Use NEAR operator to find keywords that appear near to each other. For example, type peanut near butter to find documents with words peanut and butter appearing one near another.
• Beside using NEAR operator, you can specify how close keywords could be. For example, use "peanut w/5 butter" (with quotes) to find documents where words peanut and butter appear within a frame of 5 words, or "w/7 peanut butter cookie" to find peanut, butter and cookie within a 7 word frame. Note that common words are not counted as part of word frame.
• If no matches are found, reword your query and try again.