Citizens' Health Care Working Group

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Quick Tips

• Look for a phrase.
  
• Example - type children's health to find the exact phrase children's health. Since the search is not case-sensitive, this is equivalent to Children's Health.
  
• Look for two or more words at once by using the AND operator.
  Example - type health AND system to find documents that have both the word health and the word system anywhere.
  
• Look for words that are close to each other by using the NEAR operator instead of the AND operator. When you use NEAR, the closer together the words are, the higher the rank of the page, so the higher it appears in the list of search results.
  
• Example - type health NEAR system to match documents where the word health is within 50 words of the word system.
  
• Look for synonyms or similar words by using the OR operator. Note that if you don't use the OR operator and search using multiple words, the words are treated as a phrase.
  
• Example - type ulcer OR sore to find the word ulcer or the word sore, but not necessarily both.
  
• Limit your search by using the AND NOT operator to exclude words.
  
• Example - type surfing AND NOT the Internet to find all instances of surfing, as long as surfing is not followed by the phrase the Internet.
  
• Use double quotes if you want to use AND, OR, NOT, or NEAR literally.
  
• Example - type "houses near parks" to find documents with the phrase houses near parks. Without the double quotes, this query would use the NEAR operator instead of the phrase.
  
• Use a single asterisk (*) to look for words that begin with the same letters.
  
• Example - type research* to find research, researcher, researching, and so on.
  
• Use a double asterisk (**) to look for all forms of a word.
  
• Example - type fly** to match fly, flew, flown, and flying.