Searching the CV using the text index is much faster than using the previous indexing services.
Tips on Text Index Server Searching
and
Using 'AND' will look for instances of both words:
Example
Java AND Delphi
near
There is also 'NEAR' which will look for two words near each other:
Examples
Java NEAR Delphi "Java Developer" NEAR "Delphi Developer"
before
There is also 'BEFORE' which will look for a word which is before another word. 'BEFORE' uses two distances, a minimum (default 1) and a maximum (default 10) which are the distances (in words) between the two words to be searched for:
Examples
Java BEFORE Developer Java BEFORE [1,10] Developer
both will give a result if 'Developer' is between 1 and 10 words after 'Java'
Java BEFORE [4,20] Developer
will give a result if 'Developer' is between 4 and 20 words after 'Java'
not
Java AND NOT Delphi means that Java must be found but there must be no
instance of Delphi. (You can also use '-' instead of the words 'AND NOT').
Example
Java AND NOT Delphi Java -Delphi
or
Java OR Delphi means that either Java or Delphi must be found.
Example
Java OR Delphi
multi word phrase
to search for a multi-word phrase use double quotes
Example
"java developer" "java developer" AND "delphi developer"
The wildcard character (*) can match words with a given prefix.
Example
esc*
matches the terms “ESC” “Esc.” “escape” “escapade” and so on.
Further tips
You can add parentheses to nest expressions within a query. The expressions in parentheses are evaluated before the rest of the query.
Use double quotes (“) to indicate that a Boolean or NEAR operator keyword should be ignored in your query. For example, “Abbott and Costello” will match pages with the phrase, not pages that match the Boolean expression. In addition to being an operator, the word and is a noise word in English.
To use specially treated characters such as &, |, ^, #, @, $, (, ), in a query, enclose your query in quotation marks (“).
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