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To find information about a topic, simply type in a few keywords. The more detailed your query, the more relevant your results.

Our search engine also comes with some advanced capabilities to help you find exactly what you're looking for. These capabilities are best shown with a few examples:

Translated: require Enhance, require learning

Finds "Enhance Learning", "Enhance learning", and "learning of type Enhance".
Does not find the lowercase "enhance learning", nor the abbreviated "Enhance learn".

Translated: forbid Enhance, require learning

Finds "Accelerated learning", "Child learning", and lowercase "enhance learning".
Does not find "Enhance definitions" nor "Enhance sleeping".

Translated: prefer Enhance, require learning

Finds "Child learning", "Enhance learning", and "Enhance Learning".
Documents with both terms appear higher in the list.

Translated: require the phrase "Enhance learning"

Finds "Enhance learning".
Does not find "Enhance Learning" nor "learning Enhance".

Translated: require enhance (case insensitive), require words starting with "learn"

Finds "ENHANCE learning", "enhance learning", "enhance learned".
The asterisk is a wildcard representing any four or fewer characters.

Translated: ignores common words like where, is, and the - requires words containing "dog"

Finds "dog", "dogleg", and "bulldog".
To suppress the ignore feature, use quotes, as in "Where is the *dog*?".

Note on case sensitivity - only words or phrases containing an upper case character will be treated as case sensitive. A search on "usa" will match "Usa", "USA", and "usA", while the term "USA" matches only its uppercase version.

The asterisk is a powerful search tool, but has some limitations. It cannot span words - that is, the query "powerfu*earch" would not match the first sentence of this paragraph - and it can represent at most four letters or numbers. To avoid overly broad searches, the asterisk can only be used in words or phrases which have at least three alpha-numeric characters. A search for "th*" would be ignored.