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- <FONT SIZE=+1>S</FONT>EARCH
- <FONT SIZE=+1>E</FONT>NGINE
- <FONT SIZE=+1>H</FONT>ELP
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- <DT><strong>paris galerie louvre</strong>
- <DD>Finds documents containing as many of these words and phrases as
- possible, ranked so that documents with the most matches are presented first.
- <dd>Lower-case search will find matches of capitalized words also. For example,
- <em>paris</em> will find matches for <em> paris, Paris, </em> and
- <em> PARIS</em>.
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- <DT><strong>noir +film -pinot</strong>
- <DD>Matches may be required, optional, or prohibited. Precede a required
- word or phrase with + and a prohibited one with -. This query finds documents
- containing <em>film</em> and <em>noir</em>, but not containing <em>pinot</em>.
- <P>
- These boolean operators are used to determine if a statement is true
- or false. The following chart illustrates the usage samples:
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- <TR><TH>Searching...</TH><TH>Results in...</TH></TR>
- <TR><TD>cable + car</TD><TD>Documents with both words.</TD></TR>
- <TR><TD>cable car</TD><TD>Documents with either words. This results in the greatest amount of matches</TD></TR>
- <TR><TD>cable -car</TD><TD>Documents about cable, but not about cable cars.</TD></TR>
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- <h3>Ranking Simple Queries</h3>
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- The Sambar Search engine ranks the results based on a scoring algorithm;
- documents with a higher score appear at the head of the ranking list.
- A document has a higher score if the following hold:
- <ul>
- <li> the query words or phrases are found in the special sections of the
- document such as the title, <B>in bold</B> or in <I>italics</I>.
- <li> the document contains multiple instances of the query word or phrase.
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