 Check spelling
Make sure your search terms are spelled correctly. The search engine will attempt to find words that sound similar to your search terms, but it's always best to try to spell the search terms correctly |
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Use Similar Words
The more similar words you use in a search, the more relevant results you will get back.
For Example: secure safe safety security |
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Use Appropriate Capitalization
Capitalize proper nouns, and remember that lower-case words will match any case. For example, typing
search will return all documents containing the words search, Search, and SEARCH. Typing Search,
however, will instruct the search engine to look only for the capitalized word. |
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Use Quotation Marks
Use quotation marks to find phrases. For example, if you type "fruit of the spirit," the search would
result in documents containing that phrase. Without the quotation marks, it would find all uses of those
words, but not in any particular order. |
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Use Plus (+) or Minus (-) Signs
The plus sign tells the search engine that a certain word or phrase is required in the search results, and
a minus sign indicates that a word or phrase must be absent in the search results. There should not be
a space between the sign and the search word. For example: Typing in +John +3:16 would result in
sermons which included John 3:16. Typing +John -3:16 would result in sermons that used John but not
verse 3:16. |
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Use Field Searches
Field searches allow you to create specific searches for words that appear in a specific part of a
document. A field search can be performed on body text (body:), title text (title:), alt text (alt:), meta
description (desc:), meta key words (keys:) or URL (url:). The field name should be in lowercase and
immediately followed by a colon. There should be no spaces between the colon and the search term.
For example, typing keys:salvation would yield a search result of all children's sermons where I included
salvation in the meta tag as a key word even though the word salvation might not be in the body of the
actual sermon. |
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Wild Card Searches
Wildcard searches can expand the number of matches for a particular request. The * character is used
as the wildcard character. For instance, searching for wh* will find the words what, why , when, whether,
and any other word that starts with wh. Searching for *her* will find the words here, whether, together,
gathering, and any other word that contains her anywhere in the word. |
