The website search tries to find all the words entered in the search box: the more words or phrases entered in the box, the narrower the search and the smaller the result set.

Words and phrases

• use "quotation marks" around phrases
• add + in front of any word or phrase to require it
• add - in front of any word or phrase or to exclude it

examples:
banana pear "apple pie"
"apple pie" -salad +"ice cream"

Special Characters

• ? matches any single character
• * matches any number of characters
• ~~ indicates numeric range
• xfirstword matches the first word of a document
• xlastword matches the last word of a document

examples:
appl? matches apply or apple
appl*ion matches application
14~~18 looks for 14, 15, 16, 17 or 18
apple pie w/10 xfirstword
apple pie w/10 xlastword