bocpages:Searching

[edit] Searching bocpages

A basic search is performed by entering the relevant term(s) in the search box.
- This is at the left of the screen when using the default skin.
- Clicking Go (or Enter on the keyboard) will automatically take you to the article, if it exists.
- Clicking Search will return a list of articles that match the terms you enter.

Some hints that will help you use the bocpages search feature effectively:

bocpages's default search will return articles with any of the words in your query.

For example, mike cs80 returns results containing mike but not cs80, and also cs80 but not mike - in addition to the results that you probably wanted; those which contained both words.
To only return results including both words, add a + to the start of each word: +mike +cs80 returns only pages containing both terms.
To be even more specific, you can enclose the terms within quotes: "mike cs80" turns up a smaller set of results, which not only have both words but have them in order (mike has probably used a yamaha cs80).
To exclude terms, add a - before them; -cs80 mike returns results containing mike, but not cs80.
Performing a boolean search, google-style, is also possible; "AND", "OR", and "NOT" are the permitted Boolean terms.

Obviously, searching solely for the or and is going to return a lot of results.
Avoiding connectives is a good rule of thumb; mike and the cs80 is far more confusing to the search engine than mike cs80.