Tips for Searching Our Connected Community

Each search term may be preceded by the standard Boolean operators not, and, or or. If you search for "apples not pears", you'll find all documents containing the word "apples" except those documents which also contain the word "pears". If you type in "and fruit and apples and pears", you'll find only those documents which contain all three search terms. The default value is or. Thus, a search for "fruit apples pears" would return pages with at least one of the three terms.

A search on "apples -fruit" is equivalent to the first example, and "+fruit +apples +pears" will return the same documents as the second.

If a search term has at least one capital letter, like "London", the search will be case sensitive with respect to that word - that is, only documents containing "London" will be found. On the other hand, lowercase words like "london" will generate hits from "London", "LONDON", or "londON".

To group a collection of words, use quotes. For example, the query "Klamath County Economic Development" (quotes included) would not generate a hit from "Klamath County does Economic Development." Without quotes, the sentence would count. Boolean operators can also act on quotations: a search on '+the +kitten not "the kitten"' would return only those documents where "the" and "kitten" appear separately.

This search finds words, not strings. A search for "in" would turn up only that word, not "bin", "inside", or "acquaintance". To perform a string search, preface your term with the dollar sign - a query on "$in" would find all words listed above.