Power Search
 
 

The NASFAA power search feature allow users to customize web searches based on keywords, categories, and/or date published. Keyword and category search results will display in order based on the frequency of the keyword or phrase within the document.

  • Look for words with the same prefix. For example, in your query form type key* to find key, keying, keyhole, keyboard, and so on.
  • Search for all forms of a word. For example, in the form type sink** to find sink, sinking, sank, and sunk.
  • Search with the keyword NEAR, rather than AND, for words close to each other.
    For example, both of these queries, system and manager and system near manager, look for the words system and manager on the same page. But with NEAR, the returned pages are ranked in order of proximity: The closer together the words are, the higher the rank of that page.
  • Refine your queries with the AND NOT keywords to exclude certain text from your search.
    For example, if you want to find all instances of surfing but not surfing the Net, write the following query:
    surfing AND NOT the Net
  • Add the OR keyword to find all instances of either one word or another.
    For example:
    Abbott OR Costello

    This query finds all pages that mention Abbott or Costello or both.




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