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Tips for Searching
To search the Sag Harbor Online archives, use keyword query to perform a search. At its simplest, a query can be just a word or a phrase. Some of the pointers on this page will help you focus your search to give you more complete results.
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 Index Server to take them literally. For instance, if you type the following query:
"system near manager"
The archive system will literally look for the complete phrase system near manager. But if you type the same query without the quotation marks:
system near manager
the archive system searches all documents for the words system and manager.