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1. Noise words and any words that are 3 characters or less in length such as 'the' 'and' 'etc' are removed from the search query. This means that more accurate results are returned. If you searched for 'as the people', then the noise words 'the' and 'as' will automatically be removed from your query. Also, any words which appear in 50% of the records are deleted and those pages are not shown.
2. In addition to simple searches, full-text searches can also be performed in Boolean mode. Boolean mode allows searches based on and/or criteria, such as '+person +Mitchell', which would only return all records that contained the words person AND Mitchell. Conversely, '-person' would skip records with that word in them.
3. The query is case-insensitive, meaning that 'ca'" is ranked the same as 'Cat', 'CAT' and 'cAT'. |
