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The case
of letters doesn't matter
All searches are case insensitive. This means you don't have to know whether
a word is capitalized or not, or whether it is a title in all caps. For
example, searching for "help" will match both "help" and "Help".
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Each word
is treated as a prefix
A word on a Web page will match your search string if it begins with the
same letters. Thus, "bread" matches "bread", "breads", "breaded", "breading",
and "breadth". (If you check the "Only match whole words" checkbox, then
the whole word must match your string--that is, "bread" will only match
"bread".)
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Words in
a phrase must be near one another
When you enter more than one word to search for, Web pages will be selected
only if all the words you enter appear close to one another, typically
in the same sentence or paragraph. Notice that this is different from
most Web searches, where pages are chosen if the words appear anywhere
on a page.
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The order
of words in a phrase doesn't matter
If you enter more than one word, they will match a Web page if the same
words appear near one another in any order.
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Common words
and numbers are ignored
Some words appear so commonly on Web pages that the search function ignores
them. In addition, words shorter than three letters and numbers shorter
than four digits are ignored.