Key words need to be more than 3 caraters long else use %
%
% at the beginning/end of a seach command means that the word
should start/end the search results.
+
The presence of a positive sign in front of a word significates
that the word has to be present in the results.
-
The presence of a negative sign in front of a word significates
that the word should not be present in the results.
(no wildcard)
The default value that exists when - or + are
not present. The word is optional but the results that include the word
will be the most popular answers.
> <
Those two characters are the ones that will increase or decrease
the popularity of a word.
( )
Brackets group the words into expressions. brackets can include
smaller groups into brackets as well.
~
The tilde at the beginning of a word will put the expression or
the word at the end of the search results as being the least popular ones.
*
A star at the end of a word will show tell the
search engine that the word we are looking for can be any word starting
with the characters preceding the *.
"
A sentence put into ( " ) will be looked for into the
whole database as it is exactly written.
The following examples show the results you would get by using the preceding
methods:
%apple%
Looks up the tracks that contain at least this word.
apple banana
Looks up the tracks that contain at least one of the words.
+apple +juice
Looks up the tracks that include both words.
+apple macintosh
Looks up for the tracks that contain the word "apple"
but sorts the results that also include "macintosh" at the top
of the page.
+apple -macintosh
Looks up for the tracks that include "apple" but not
"macintosh".
+apple +(>tatin
<strudel)
Looks up for the tracks that include "apple" and "tatin"
or "apple" and "strudel" but will put the results including
tatin highest on the page.
pomm*
Looks up for the tracks that include "pomme", "pommes",
"pommier" or "pommeau".
"deux
mots"
Looks up for the exact words and the order in which it is written
between the ".