Search for pages in this web by specific words or combinations of words.   Click for examples of query language.  Search displays a weighted list of matching pages, with better matches shown first.  Listed items link to a matching page.  The document title or its file name will be shown.

The Clear button works prior to starting a search.   Please delete or overwrite search terms if you want to start a new search after a completed search.

Query Language Explanation

The text search engine allows queries to be formed from arbitrary Boolean expressions containing the keywords AND, OR, and NOT, and grouped with parentheses. For example:

information retrieval

finds documents containing 'information' or 'retrieval'

information or retrieval

same as above

information and retrieval

finds documents containing both 'information' and 'retrieval'

information not retrieval

finds documents containing 'information' but not 'retrieval'

(information not retrieval) and WAIS

finds documents containing 'WAIS', plus 'information' but not 'retrieval'

web*

finds documents containing words starting with 'web'