Site Search Match All Terms Any Term and show results in Standard Form in Compact Form Search Help To find information about a topic, simply type in a few keywords. The more detailed your query, the more relevant your results. This search engine also comes with some advanced capabilities to help you find exactly what you're looking for. These capabilities are best shown with a few examples: Translated: require snowdrop, require collection Finds "Snowdrop collection", "snowdrop Collection", and "Snowdrop and Cyclamen collection". Does not find the plural "Snowdrop collections", nor the abbreviated "collect snow". Translated: forbid snow, require collection Finds "Cyclamen collection", "snowdrop collection", and "collection of snowdrops". Does not find "snowdrop collecting" nor "snow collection". Translated: prefer snowdrop, require collection Finds "cyclamen collection", "Snowdrop collection", and "snowdrop plantings". Documents with both terms appear higher in the list. Translated: require the phrase "snowdrop collection" Finds "snowdrop collection". Does not find "Snowdrop Collection" nor "snowdrop and cyclamen collection". Translated: require words starting with snow (case insensitive), require words starting with "collect" Finds "snow collector", "snowdrop collection", "snow collecting around the trees". The asterisk is a wildcard representing any four or fewer characters. Translated: require Venus (case sensitive), require pictures, forbid planet, prefer images First lists "pictures and images of Venus", then "Venus pictures". Does not list lowercase "venus picture", nor forbidden "picture of planet Venus". Translated: ignores common words like where, is, and the - requires words containing "frog" Finds "frog", "frogleg", and "bullfrog". To suppress the ignore feature, use quotes, as in "Where is the *frog*?". Note on case sensitivity - only words or phrases containing an upper case character will be treated as case sensitive. A search on "usa" will match "Usa", "USA", and "usA", while the term "USA" matches only its uppercase version. The asterisk is a powerful search tool, but has some limitations. It cannot span words - that is, the query "powerfu*earch" would not match the first sentence of this paragraph - and it can represent at most four letters or numbers. To avoid overly broad searches, the asterisk can only be used in words or phrases which have at least three alpha-numeric characters. A search for "th*" would be ignored. Anglesey Abbey Main Page The Xavatoria Search Engine is Copyright 1997 by Fluid Dynamics. Visit the Search Page for help files and most recent version.