Basic Search Tips

All queries will be treated as an exact phrase search, meaning that if you intend to search for "United States of America" those words must appear in that exact order in the documents.

If you wish to search for words located anywhere within the document in no particular order you will need to use the 'and' operator. For example to search for "United States of America" with all of the words existing in the document in any order you would need to enter:

United and States and of and America

Other basic operators available are 'not', 'or' and 'near'.

Your searches will be case-insensitive unless you specify a case. The query "apple" will return "Apple", "apple" or even "aPpLe", whereas the query "Apple" will return only "Apple".

Also, your queries will be put through another useful feature of Verity Information Server called the stem table. A query such as "bank" will return "bank", "banking", "banked", "banker" and "banks"