Use the form above to search for pages in this Web which contain your search phrase. Your search will display a list of matching pages, with better matches shown first. Clicking on a list item will take you to the matching page.

Use the Start Search button to search, or the Clear button to remove your search words (not to clear the search results). To clear the last search result, simply do a new search. Sorry, but this search engine only finds whole pages, not the actual word you are searching for on a page. You will have to scan the page manually to find the exact location of your search word.

A brief explanation of query language use, with examples, is available below.

query language use

The text search engine allows queries to be formed from Boolean expressions containing the keywords AND, OR, and NOT, and grouped with parentheses. For example:

information retrieval

finds pages containing EITHER 'information' OR 'retrieval'

information or retrieval

same as above

information and retrieval

finds pages containing both 'information' AND 'retrieval'. This might be your whole search phrase, or just a page that happens to contain all the words in your search phrase - but not together.

information not retrieval

finds pages containing 'information' but NOT 'retrieval'

(information not retrieval) and WAIS

finds documents containing 'WAIS', AND 'information' but NOT 'retrieval'

web*

finds documents containing words starting with 'web'.
'*' (asterisk) works as a "wildcard" which stands in for any characters in the remainder of the word. For example, 'webmaster', 'web'  and 'webs' would be found, while 'web master' (two words) or 'wedmaster' (no 'b') would not.