Advanced Search & Search Tips

Search Tips:

• Enter one or more words or phrases (i.e. John or John Smith) and click the appropriate Match button.  Then click the search button.  The site will be searched for words and phrases matching these and other parts of speech, plural and singular forms, misspellings, and sound-alike words.
• The search will only find the first occurrence within a page.  So if you search for John Smith by entering John and there's a John Jones listed before him, you won't find him.  In this case, make you search more precise by searching for John Smith.
• Try similar words.
  Example: safe, secure, private
• Use capitalization.
  Example: Capitol Building
• Use + to require and - to exclude words or phrases.
  Example: +language -template
• Use wildcards.
  Examples: 
        wh*
        "wh* are"
        415-*-*
• Use field searches.
  Examples:
     title:about
     desc:"Management Team"
     keys:membership
     body:privacy
     alt:"join now"
     url:news
     target:contac