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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>**
 **and**\\ \\
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 instance of Delphi.
 \\ Example
-    Java not Delphi
+    Java and not Delphi
 **or**\\ \\
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 You can use any relational operator =  >  <  >=  <=
+\\ Example
     java and @hitcount>2
 will only return records with more than 2 counts of java
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 will only return records with equal to or less than 3 counts of java developer
+The wildcard character (*) can match words with a given prefix.
+\\ Example
+    esc*
+matches the terms "ESC" "Esc." "escape" "escapade" and so on.
-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.
+Or (%%**%%) will match words based on the same stem word
+\\ Example
+    fly**
+Matches based on the same stem as “fly,” such as “flying,” “flown,” “flew,” and so on
-The below two examples return the same list of matching candidates.
+**Further tips**
+\\ You can add parentheses to nest expressions within a query. The expressions in parentheses are evaluated before the rest of the query.
-Example 1 takes around six seconds to return, Example 2 takes almost two minutes to return the same results.
+\\ 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.
-{{:cv_searching_efficient.jpg |Efficient CV searching - example 1}}
+\\ To use specially treated characters such as &, |, ^, #, @, $, (, ), in a query, enclose your query in quotation marks (").
+\\ 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"
-{{:cv_searching_not.jpg|CV searching example 2}}
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