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 ====== Basic IQX CV Searching using Microsoft Indexing Services ======
-**<color red>Index Server Searching Only</color>**
+Searching is much quicker when the search terms are all included in one CV criteria box on the search screen.  For every separate instance of the criteria of CV being included in the search, IQX has to search the entire database and save the results in a separate table for each one before searching again.  By combining words in one instance of the CV search criteria, CVs are only searched once and the search will be much more efficient.
+The below two examples return the same list of matching candidates.
+Example 1 takes around six seconds to return, Example 2 takes almost two minutes to return the same results.
+{{:cv_searching_efficient.jpg |Efficient CV searching - example 1}}
+{{:cv_searching_not.jpg|CV searching example 2}}
+**<color red>Tips on Index Server Searching</color>**
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-Searching is much quicker when the search terms are all included in one CV criteria box on the search screen.  For every separate instance of the criteria of CV being included in the search, IQX has to search the entire database and save the results in a separate table for each one before searching again.  By combining words in one instance of the CV search criteria, CVs are only searched once and the search will be much more efficient.
+To use specially treated characters such as &, |, ^, #, @, $, (, ), in a query, enclose your query in quotation marks (").
-The below two examples return the same list of matching candidates.
+To search for a word or phrase containing quotation marks, enclose the entire phrase in quotation marks and then double the quotation marks around the word or words you want to surround with quotes.
+\\ Example
+    "World-Wide Web or ""Web"""
+searches for World-Wide Web or "Web"
-Example 1 takes around six seconds to return, Example 2 takes almost two minutes to return the same results.
+The wildcard character (*) can match words with a given prefix.
+\\ Example
+    esc*
+matches the terms "ESC" "Esc." "escape" "escapade" and so on.
-{{:cv_searching_efficient.jpg |Efficient CV searching - example 1}}
-{{:cv_searching_not.jpg|CV searching example 2}}
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