This is a very simple search engine that opens every html document on the department's web site and searches for the word or words entered by the user. It does not support advanced search techniques other than Boolean keyword searching. Terms can be searched exactly as entered (case sensitive) or regardless of case (case insensitive).
Instructions:
1. Enter keyword(s) into the space provided in the box labeled "Text to Search for:" Seperate keywords with a single space; do not use commas.
2. The search engine treats multiple terms as if they have an "AND" between them. Only those html documents which contain all of the terms entered will be returned.
For example: If "cat dog hamster" is entered as the text to search for, then the resulting pages, if any, will be only those pages that contain the word "cat" AND "dog" AND "hamster" somewhere in the text of the page.
3. Users can change how multiple terms are handled by using the box labeled "Boolean:" To do this, simply click on the pull down menu indicated by a down arrow. The user will be presented with a choice list of the Boolean searching terms "AND" and "OR." Depending on how broad or narrow the user wishes the search to be, they can select either option. Selecting OR will broaden the search and selecting AND will narrow the search. Only one Boolean operator can be used at a time. It is not possible at this time to create complex search strings using both AND and OR.
For example: If a user wants to see all of those pages which contain any of the terms "cat" or"dog" or "hamster" then the user should select OR to broaden the search. Every document which contains any one of those words will be returned in the list of results.
4. Users can tell the search engine if they want a case sensitive or case insensitive search. The default is for the search engine to disregard the case of the letters entered by the user. If, however, the user wishes to search for a particular term in exactly the way in which it is entered, then the user can use the pull-down choice list labeled "Case" and select Sensitive.