METAFACTS SEARCH

Enter a term below to search for documents in the MetaFacts database containing specific words or combinations of words. The text search engine will display a weighted list of matching documents, with better matches shown first. Each list item is a link to a matching document; if the document has a title it will be shown, otherwise only the document's file name is displayed. A brief explanation of the query language is available below, along with examples.
 
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Query Language

The text search engine allows queries to be formed from arbitrary Boolean expressions containing the keywords AND, OR, and NOT, and grouped with parentheses. For example:

digital camera
finds documents containing 'digital' or 'camera'
 
digital or camera
same as above
 
digital and camera
finds documents containing both 'digital' and 'camera'
 
digital not camera
finds documents containing 'digital' but not 'camera'
 
(digital not camera) and printer
finds documents containing 'printer', plus 'digital' but not 'camera'
 
web*
finds documents containing words starting with 'web'