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Simple Query options for this Search Form
	This Search Engine allows for queries formed from Boolean expressions containing the keywords AND, OR, and NOT, and grouped with parentheses. For example:

	happy people 
		- finds pages containing 'happy' or 'people'

	happy or  people  
		- does the same as above

	happy and  people 
		- finds documents containing both 'information' and 'retrieval'

	happy not  people 
		- finds documents containing 'information' but not 'retrieval' 

	(happy not  people) and Smiles 
		- finds documents containing 'Smiles', plus 'happy'  but not 'people'

	hap* 
		- finds documents containing words starting with 'hap', 
		including 'happy' , 'happiness' , 'happens' , etc...

Much more detail Below -- Maybe too much:)

Our search engine also comes with some advanced capabilities to help you find exactly what you're looking for. These capabilities are best shown with a few examples:

Translated: require LOTUS, require SUTRA

Finds "LOTUS SUTRA", "LOTUS SUTRA", and "SUTRA of type LOTUS".
Does not find the lowercase "LOTUS SUTRA", nor the abbreviated "LOTUS script".

Translated: forbid LOTUS, require BUDDHISM

Finds "Perfect BUDDHISM", "Hollywood BUDDHISM", and lowercase "LOTUS BUDDHISM".
Does not find "LOTUS definitions" nor "LOTUS BUDDHISM".

Translated: prefer LOTUS, require BUDDHISM

Finds "Nichiren BUDDHISM", "LOTUS BUDDHISM", and "LOTUS Mahayana BUDDHISM".
Documents with both terms appear higher in the list.

Translated: require the phrase "LOTUS BUDDHISM"

Finds "LOTUS BUDDHISM".
Does not find "LOTUS BUDDHISM" nor "BUDDHISM of type LOTUS".

Translated: require lotus (case insensitive), require words starting with "medi"

Finds "LOTUS BUDDHISM", "Lotus SUTRA", "LOTUS meditate", but NOT "LOTUS meditations" (exceeds four characters).
The asterisk is a wildcard representing any four or fewer characters.

Translated: require Venus (case sensitive), require pictures, forbid planet, prefer images

First lists "pictures and images of Venus", then "Venus pictures".
Does not list lowercase "venus picture", nor forbidden "picture of planet Venus".

Translated: ignores common words like where, is, and the - requires words containing "buddha"

Finds "Buddha", "buddhadharma", and "sakyamunibuddha".
To suppress the ignore feature, use quotes, as in "Where is the *buddha*?".

Note on case sensitivity - only words or phrases containing an upper case character will be treated as case sensitive.  A search on "usa" will match "Usa", "USA", and "usA", while the term "USA" matches only its uppercase version.

The asterisk is a powerful search tool, but has some limitations. It cannot span words - that is, the query "powerfu*earch" would not match the first sentence of this paragraph - and it can represent at most four letters or numbers. To avoid overly broad searches, the asterisk can only be used in words or phrases which have at least three alpha-numeric characters. A search for "th*" would be ignored.

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