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Use Multiple Words

Use multiple words when performing your search. The search results will return more refined results from several words than from a single word. For example, typing green card will yield more relevant results than typing only card. (Keep in mind, relevant results are returned even if they don’t contain all query terms.)

Use Similar Words

The more similar words you use in a search, the more relevant results you will get back. For example: Job Employment Career.

Use Appropriate Capitalization

Capitalize proper nouns. Lowercase words will match any case. For example, typing visa will return all documents containing the words visa, Visa, and VISA. However, typing Visa will only search for pages with the exact word Visa.

Use Quotation Marks

Use quotation marks to find words which must appear adjacent to each other, for example, “green card.” Otherwise, the search results will include the word green, card but not necessarily in that order. The words may appear anywhere, and in any order, within the document.

Use Plus (+) or Minus (-)

Use a plus sign when your search term or phrase must appear in the search results. Use a minus sign to indicate undesirable term(s). The plus sign tells the search engine that a certain word or phrase is required in the search results, and a minus sign indicates that a word or phrase must be absent in the search results.

Note: A phrase must be contained within quotation marks. Leave no spaces between the plus or minus sign and the term.

Use Wildcard

Wildcard searches can expand the number of matches for a particular request. The * character is used as the wildcard character.
For instance, searching for wh* will find the words what, why, when, whether, and any other word that starts with wh.
Searching for *her* will find the words here, whether, together, gathering, and any other word that contains her anywhere in the word.

Wildcards may be combined with the standard plus (+) and minus (-) modifiers, quotes for phrases, as well as the field search specifiers.
+wh* -se*ch will find all pages which have a word that starts with wh and which does not contain a word that starts with se and ends with ch.
“wh* are” will find the phrases where are, what are, why are, etc.

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