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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> <html> <head><script type="text/javascript" src="/_static/js/bundle-playback.js?v=HxkREWBo" charset="utf-8"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="/_static/js/wombat.js?v=txqj7nKC" charset="utf-8"></script> <script>window.RufflePlayer=window.RufflePlayer||{};window.RufflePlayer.config={"autoplay":"on","unmuteOverlay":"hidden"};</script> <script type="text/javascript" src="/_static/js/ruffle/ruffle.js"></script> <script type="text/javascript"> __wm.init("https://web.archive.org/web"); __wm.wombat("http://gorillasguides.com/?as_hintpopup=show","20130117005820","https://web.archive.org/","web","/_static/", "1358384300"); </script> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="/_static/css/banner-styles.css?v=S1zqJCYt" /> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="/_static/css/iconochive.css?v=3PDvdIFv" />  <title>Hints for the Advanced Search</title> <style type="text/css"> body { padding: 0; margin: 0; } #page { font-size: 80%; padding: 3px 15px 15px; margin: 0 auto; background-color: #FCFBF1; border-left: 1px solid #F6F5EB; width: 400px; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; } p { padding: 0px; margin: 2px; } em { color: #900; } code { font-size: 1.2em; } #blogname { margin: 0 0 15px; border-bottom: 1px solid #555; } ul { list-style-type: none; padding: 0 10px; } li { margin: 5px 0; padding: 4px; } h1 { font-size: 1.5em; } h2 { font-size: 1.3em; } h3 { font-size: 1.1em; } #footer { margin: 20px 0 0; text-align: center; border-top: 1px solid #555; color: #555; font-size: 0.9em; } </style> </head> <body> <div id="page"><p id="blogname"><strong>Gorilla’s Guides</strong></p> <h1>Hints for the advanced search</h1> <h2>General hints</h2> <ul> <li>Each search term must contain at least four characters. The search query <em>Let it be</em> would return no results.</li> <li>A number of <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130117005820/http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/fulltext-stopwords.html#fulltext-stopwords" target="_blank">common words</a> is silently ignored. This is to increase performance and to improve the quality of the search results.</li> </ul> <h2>Search operators</h2> <h3>There is a number of operators which allow to fine-tune your search (see below for examples).</h3> <ul> <li><p><code>+</code></p><p>A leading plus sign indicates that this word must be present in each article that is returned.</p></li> <li><p><code>-</code></p><p>A leading minus sign indicates that this word must not be present in any of the articles that are returned.</p></li> <li><p>(no operator)</p><p>By default (when neither <code>+</code> nor <code>-</code> is specified) the word is optional, but the articles that contain it are rated higher.</p></li> <li><p><code>> <</code></p><p>These two operators are used to change a word\'s contribution to the relevance value that is assigned to an article. The <code>></code> operator increases the contribution and the <code><</code> operator decreases it.</p></li> <li><p><code>( )</code></p><p>Parentheses group words into subexpressions. Parenthesized groups can be nested.</p></li> <li><p><code>~</code></p><p>A leading tilde acts as a negation operator, causing the word\'s contribution to the article\'s relevance to be negative. An article containing such a word is rated lower than others, but is not excluded altogether, as it would be with the <code>-</code> operator.</p></li> <li><p><code>*</code></p><p>The asterisk serves as the truncation (or wildcard) operator. Unlike the other operators, it should be appended to the word to be affected. Words match if they begin with the word preceding the <code>*</code> operator.</p></li> <li><p><code>"</code></p><p>A phrase that is enclosed within double quote characters matches only articles that contain the phrase literally, as it was typed.</p></li> </ul> <p>Note: Rankings are only applied when "relevance" is selected for sorting.</p> <h3>The following examples demonstrate the usage of the advanced search.</strong></h3> <ul> <li><p><code>apple banana</code></p><p>Find articles that contain at least one of the two words.</p></li> <li><p><code>+apple +juice</code></p><p>Find articles that contain both words.</p></li> <li><p><code>+apple tree</code></p><p>Find articles that contain the word <em>apple</em>, but rank articles higher if they also contain <em>tree</em>.</p></li> <li><p><code>+apple -tree</code></p><p>Find articles that contain the word <em>apple</em> but not <em>tree</em>.</p></li> <li><p><code>+apple ~tree</code></p><p>Find articles that contain the word <em>apple</em>, but if the article also contains the word <em>tree</em>, rate it lower than if article does not. This is "softer" than a search for <code>+apple -tree</code>, for which the presence of <em>tree</em> causes the article not to be returned at all.</p></li> <li><p><code>+apple +(>strudel <jelly)</code></p><p>Find articles that contain the words <em>apple</em> and <em>strudel</em>, or <em>apple</em> and <em>jelly</em> (in any order), but rank <em>apple strudel</em> higher than <em>apple jelly</em>.</p></li> <li><p><code>apple*</code></p><p>Find articles that contain words such as <em>apple</em>, <em>apples</em>, <em>applesauce</em>, or <em>applet</em>.</p></li> <li><p><code>"sweet apple"</code></p> <p>Find articles that contain the exact phrase <em>sweet apple</em> (for example, articles that contain <em>my sweet apple</em> but not <em>my sweet and tasty apple</em>).</p></li> </ul> <p id="footer">This overview is partially derived from the <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130117005820/http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/fulltext-boolean.html" target="_blank">MySQL manual</a>.</p></div> </body> </html>