WVDA Search Engine Tips

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To find information about a topic, simply type in a few keywords. The more detailed your query, the more relevant your results.

Note on case sensitivity - only words or phrases containing an upper case character will be treated as case sensitive. A search on "usa" will match "Usa", "USA", and "usA", while the term "USA" matches only its uppercase version.

Our search engine also comes with some advanced capabilities to help you find exactly what you're looking for. These capabilities are best shown with a few examples:

Translated: require calorie, require calculator

Finds "calorie calculator", "Calorie Calculator", and "calculator for calories".

Translated: forbid calorie, require calculator

Finds "nutrition calculator" and "physical activity calculator".
Does not find "calorie" nor "calorie calculator".

Translated: prefer calorie, require calculator

Finds "physical activity calculator", "calorie calculator", and "Nutrition Calculator".
Documents with both terms appear higher in the list.

Translated: require the phrase "calorie calculator"

Finds the phrase "calorie calculator".

Translated: require calorie, require words starting with "calculat*"

Finds "calorie calculator", "calorie calculation", "Calorie calculating".
The asterisk is a wildcard representing any four or fewer characters.

Translated: ignores common words like where, are, and the - requires words containing "calories"

Finds "calorie" and "calories".
To suppress the ignore feature, use quotes, as in "Where are the calories?".

The asterisk is a powerful search tool, but has some limitations. It cannot span words - that is, the query "powerfu*earch" would not match the first sentence of this paragraph - and it can represent at most four letters or numbers. To avoid overly broad searches, the asterisk can only be used in words or phrases which have at least three alpha-numeric characters. A search for "th*" would be ignored.

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