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Example searches: 

A search for Caution Report finds pages in this web containing Caution or Report.

A search for "Caution Report" finds pages in this web containing phrase Caution Report.

A search for +Caution -Report finds pages in this web containing Caution but not Report.

A search for Caution or Report finds pages in this web containing Caution or Report.

A search for Caution and Report finds pages in this web containing both Caution and Report.

A search for +Caution +Report finds pages in this web containing both Caution and Report.

A search for Caution not Report finds pages in this web containing Caution and not Report.

A search for Caution and (Report or Referee) finds pages in this web containing Caution and either Report or Referee.

A search for Ref * finds pages in this web containing words starting with Ref.

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Make sure your search terms are spelled correctly. The search engine will attempt to find words that sound similar to your search terms - but it is always best to spell the search terms correctly.

Use multiple words

Using multiple words will return more refined results than a single word. For example, typing offside free kick decision will return more relevant results than typing just offside. (Keep in mind that relevant results are returned even if they don't contain all query terms.)

Use similar words

The more similar words you use in a search, the more relevant your results will be.  Example foul incident misconduct free kick

Use appropriate capitalization

Capitalise proper nouns, and remember that lower-case words will match any case. For example, typing search will return all documents containing the words search, Search, and SEARCH. Typing Search, however, will instruct the search engine to look only for the capitalised word.

Use quotation marks

Use quotation marks to find words which must appear adjacent to each other, for example, "the referee cautioned the player." Otherwise, the search results will include the word the, referee, cautioned, the, and the word player, but not necessarily in that order. The words may appear anywhere, and in any order, within the document.

Note: if you are using the Advanced Search Form with radio buttons for "any," "all," and "phrase," then quotes can only be used when the "any" radio button is selected. Quotes are ignored if the "all" or "phrase" radio buttons are selected

Use plus (+) or minus (-)

Use Boolean plus (+) or minus (-) operators when your search term or phrase must appear in the search results - precede a search term or phrase with a plus (+) sign to indicate it must appear in a search result. Precede a search term with a minus (-) sign to indicate an undesirable search term or phrase that must not appear in a search result. For example, searching for   +cautions -spitting    will return results that are about cautions, but not about spitting. The plus sign tells the search engine that a certain word or phrase is required in the search results, and a minus sign indicates that a word or phrase must be absent in the search results.

Note: A phrase must be contained within quotation marks. Leave no spaces between the plus or minus sign and the term. Example, +"caution a player"

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Use wildcards

Wildcard searches can expand the number of matches for a particular request. The * character is used as the wildcard character.

For instance, searching for wh* will find the words what, why, when, whether, and any other word that starts with wh.
Searching for *her* will find the words here, whether, together, gathering, and any other word that contains her anywhere in the word.

Wildcards may be combined with the standard plus (+) and minus (-) modifiers, quotes for phrases, as well as the field search specifiers.
+wh* -se*ch will find all pages which have a word that starts with wh and which does not contain a word that starts with se and ends with ch.
"wh* are" will find the phrases where are, what are, why are, etc.

Use field searches

Use field searches - Field searches allow you to search for words that appear in a specific part of a document such as the body text (body:), title text (title:), alt text (alt:), meta description (desc:), meta keywords (keys:) or URL (url:). The field name should include the colon and precede the search word or phrase with no spaces between them. For example, searching for title:mentoring   will find pages with mentoring   in the title of the page. The field name should be in lower-case and immediately followed by a colon. There should be no spaces between the colon and the search term.

Field Search Examples:

body:yellow
title:search
alt:"dopeyref.gif"
url:jokes

Note: The field searches can only be followed by a word or phrase. Phrases must be contained within quotation marks.

Note: if you are using the Advanced Search Form with a list box for the field name, then field names can only be entered before a word or phrase when the "any" option is selected. Specific field names are ignored if any other Advanced Search Form field is selected in the list box.