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Important Note: This
site search engine will search for all material contained on this
website except for books written by Ellen G. White
and the photo archive. To Search Ellen G. White's books, please
use The
Complete Published Writings Database search engine. The following
link will search the EGW Loma Linda Branch office Photo
Archive.
Tips for Searching
At its simplest, a query can be just a word or a phrase. But with the tips on this page, you can expand the focus of your query to give you more complete results. These tips will get you started with basic query language and acquaint you with the full
power of our search engine.
Look for words with the same prefix. For example, in your query form type key* to find key, keying, keyhole,
keyboard, and so on.
Search for all forms of a word. For example, in the form type sink** to find sink, sinking, sank, and sunk.
Search with the keyword NEAR, rather than AND, for words close to each other. For example, both of these queries,
system and manager and system near manager, look for the words system and manager on the same page. But
with NEAR, the returned pages are ranked in order of proximity: The closer together the words are, the higher the rank
of that page.
Refine your queries with the AND NOT keywords to exclude certain text from your search. For example, if you want
to find all instances of surfing but not surfing the Net, write the following query:
surfing AND NOT the Net
- Add the OR keyword to find all instances of either one word or another, for example:
Abbott OR Costello
This query finds all pages that mention Abbott or Costello or both.
Put quotation marks around keywords if you want the search engine to take them literally. For instance, if you type the following query:
"system near manager"
The search engine will literally look for the complete phrase system near manager. But if you type the same query without
the quotation marks:
system near manager
we will search all documents for the words system and manager.
These hints will get you started, but for more complex queries and more examples, see the Query Language page.
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