Search matches your query against entries in the fortunes database.
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Doing a
search is easy. Type in a query (one or more words
or phrase describing what you want to locate) in the search box and press
the "Enter" key.
The system will look through the fortunes database and list pages that match
your query. The most relevant page is listed first. Fortunes may be listed
more than once if they are found in more than one category.
Here are some tips to help you with your search.
Case Sensitivity
Searches are case insensitive. The query
book or
BOOK will
return the same result.
Partial words
The search matches partial words. Therefore,
book will also match
books or any other word with "book"
in it. There is no word stemming.
Default Search
The default search criteria is "
and". For a query consisting of more
than one word, search results will list fortunes that contain all the words in query.
For example, the query
fortune cookie will
return a list of fortunes that contain the words
fortune and
cookie.
Or Search
You can do an "
or" search by inserting "or" in between the words of your query.
For example, the query
Fortune or Cookie will list fortunes that have
the either
fortune or
cookie or both.
Compound Search
"And" and "or" can be mixed in a query. For example,
the equivalent logic for the query
fottune cookie or canada is
- fortune and cookie or canada
The equivalent logic for the query
fortune and cookie or canada is
- fortune and and and cookie or canada
Phrase Match
To match a phrase, enclose the phrase in quotes.
For example, the query
"simple steps" (with the quotes) will return pages
that contain the phrase
simple steps with no other words in between.
In contrast, the the query
simple steps will return pages in which
simple and
steps occur any where on the page in any order.
Wild Card Searches
Wild card searches are preformed by including
wild card characters in the
query. There are two such characters
? and
*
The
? is a single character wild card. It matches any character zero or
one time only.
For example, the query
- travel?ed
will match
traveled and its alternate
travelled.
The
* is a multi-character wild card. It matches any character zero or more
times.
For example, if not sure how "lieutenant" is spelled you could use the query
- l*tenant
to search for the word.
Wild card characters are also helpful for matching words whose alternate spelling may
contain hyphens. Currently, the
* wild card matches up to 10 characters.
Note: Since search matches partial words automatically, wild cards are
not necessary at the beginning or the end of a word.
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