Help on Searching
Here is some help on the fields on the search form.
| Field | Meaning |
|---|---|
| Words: | Enter the words or word prefixes you want to find. |
| How: |
Select AND to require that all words be present.
Select OR to require that at least one word be present. |
| Confine to: | Supply a pattern that the URI must match in order for the search results to display it. For example, enter /rsk/* to specify that you want to see only the hits from the RSK directory, or enter */index.html to specify that you want to see only those hits from files called index.html. Note: if you do not include a '*' anywhere in your pattern, we will automatically append a '*' to it. So if you specified /rsk/, we would use /rsk/*. |
Then click SEARCH.
The results table has the following headings:
| Heading | Meaning |
|---|---|
| Rank | The ranking of this page. The page ranked "1" is most likely to contain information interesting to you (we hope!). |
| Page | The name of the page we found. |
| Word Count | The number of words from your search string that we found in this page. The more of your words we found, the higher we rank the page. |
| Friend Count | The number of pages on our site that contain a link to the page we found. The more "friends" a page has, the higher we rank it. |
| Friend List | If you'd like to see a list of the pages that contain a link to this page, click on the link and we will show you the list. |