Keyword Anywhere Search
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Keyword Anywhere Search
A keyword anywhere search uses keyword searching resulting in a list ranked in order by relevant hits. To do a keyword anywhere search:
● Put quotation marks " " around multi-word search terms as "united states".
● Put a + before essential search terms; +emancipation.
● Put a * before important search terms; *history.
● Use a ? as the truncation symbol. Using the truncation symbol ? with part of the word to retrieve multiple endings; slav? will retrieve slave, slaves, slavery, etc.
See example below:
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