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Basic
search types
- Phrase
searching finds phrases like due process
of law.
- Boolean
options let you click to add connectors like and/or/not
to any word or phrase search.
- Proximity
search finds apple w/38 peach pie.
- Wildcards
lets you use ? to hold a single letter place: *to
hold multiple letter places.
- Phonic
searching finds words that sounds alike,
like Smythe in search For Smith.
- Stemming
variations on endings, like applies,
applied, applying in a search for apply.
- Numeric
range searches find any number between
6 and 36.
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Thesaurus
searching
- Also
know as concept searching, thesaurus
searching lets you look for fast and find
quick, speedy, etc.
- dtSearch
offers variable levels of automatic
synonym expansion based on a comprehensive
semantic network of the English
language. (You can even add your own
thesaurus terms!)
- You
can also browse the thesaurus and selectively choose
words to include in a search request.
Combining
search types
- Nearly
all search features are combinable. You can
make your search as complex - or as simple - as
you want(up to 8000 characters).
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Fuzzy
searching
- Fuzzy
searching uses a proprietary algorithm to find search
terms even if they are misspelled.
- Search
fuzziness adjusts from 0
to 10 so you can fine-tune fuzziness to
the level of OCR or typographical
errors in your files.
- A
search for alphabet with a fuzziness of
1 would find alphaqet; with a fuzziness
of 3 it would find both alphaqet and alpkqet.
- Fuzziness
is not "hardwired" into the index, so
you can vary fuzziness at the time of each search
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