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 Match words in the title (1)
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Match words in the document text (3)
Match words in the keywords (4)

Use * for wildcard match eg: ree* will return reef - reefkeep etc

Search Help:       This form will search the Entire website

To find information about a topic, simply type in a few keywords. The more detailed your query, the more relevant your results.
This search engine also comes with some advanced capabilities to help you find exactly what you're looking for. These capabilities are best shown with a few examples:

Translated: require aquarium, require Management
Finds "aquarium Management", "aquarium Management", and "Management of type aquarium".
Does not find the lowercase "aquarium management", nor the abbreviated "aquarium manage".


Translated: forbid aquarium, require Reef
Finds "My Reef", "Your Reef", and lowercase "aquarium Reef".
Does not find "aquarium definitions" nor "aquarium reef".


Translated: prefer aquarium, require Reef
Finds "My Reef", "your Reef", and "aquarium Reef".
Documents with both terms appear higher in the list.


Translated: require the phrase "aquarium Reef"
Finds "aquarium Reef".
Does not find "my reef aquarium" nor "Reef of type aquarium".


Translated: require aquarium (case insensitive), require words starting with "reef"
Finds "aquarium Reef", "aquarium Management", "aquarium reefer".
The asterisk is a wildcard representing any four or fewer characters.


Translated: require reef (case sensitive), require pictures, forbid crab, prefer images
First lists "pictures and images of reef", then "reef pictures".
Does not list lowercase "reef picture", nor forbidden "picture of crab reef".


Translated: ignores common words like where, is, and the - requires words containing "reef"
Finds "reef", "reefkeeper", and "extremereef".
To suppress the ignore feature, use quotes, as in "Where is the *reef*?".


Note on case sensitivity - only words or phrases containing an upper case character will be treated as case sensitive.

A search on "reef" will match "Reef", "REEF", and "ReEF", while the term "REEF" matches only its uppercase version.


The asterisk is a powerful search tool, but has some limitations. It cannot span words - that is, the query "powerfu*earch" would not match the first sentence of this paragraph - and it can represent at most four letters or numbers. To avoid overly broad searches, the asterisk can only be used in words or phrases which have at least three alpha-numeric characters. A search for "th*" would be ignored.