Search Rules
The Crystal Angel Search Engine helps you find
clothing, furniture, MPZ's, rooms and more
on this website and related sites.
Here's how it works: you tell the search service
what you're looking for by typing in keywords,
phrases, or questions in the search box.
The search service responds by giving you
a list of all the Web pages in our index
relating to those topics. The most relevant
content will appear at the top of your results.
How To Use:
Type your keywords in the search box.
Press the Search button to start your search.
Here's an example:
Type Wedding Gowns in the search box.
Press the Search button or press the Enter
key.
Tip: Don't worry if you find a large number
of results. In fact, use more than a couple
of words when searching. Even though the
number of results will be large, the most
relevant content will always appear at the
top of the result pages.
More Basics - An Overview
What is an Index?
Webster's dictionary describes an "index"
as a sequential arrangement of material.
Our index is a large, growing, organized
collection of Web pages and discussion group
pages from around the world. The 'index'
becomes larger every day as people send us
the addresses for new Web pages. We also
have technology that crawls the Web looking
for links to new pages. When you use our
search service, you search the entire collection
using keywords or phrases.
What is a Word?
When searching, think of a word as a combination
of letters and numbers. The search service
needs to know how to separate words and numbers
to find exactly what you want on the Internet.
You can separate words using white space
and tabs.
What is a Phrase?
You can link words and numbers together into
phrases if you want specific words or numbers
to appear together in your result pages.
If you want to find an exact phrase, use
"double quotation marks" around
the phrase when you enter words in the search
box.
Example #1: To find lyrics by the King, type
"you ain't nothing but a hound dog"
in the search box. You can also create phrases
using punctuation or special characters such
as dashes, underscore lines, commas, slashes,
or dots.
Example #2: Try searching for 1-800-999-9999
instead of 1 800 999 9999. The dashes link
the numbers together as a phrase.
Simple Tips for More Exact Searches
Searches are case insensitive. Searching
for "Fur" will match the lowercase
"fur" and uppercase "FUR".
By default, all searches are accent insensitive
as well, but administrators can change this
setting. Accent sensitivity relates to Latin
characters like õ.
Including or excluding words:
To make sure that a specific word is always
included in your search topic, place the
plus (+) symbol before the key word in the
search box. To make sure that a specific
word is always excluded from your search
topic, place a minus (-) sign before the
keyword in the search box.
Example: To find recipes for cookies with
oatmeal but without raisins, try "recipe
cookie +oatmeal -raisin".
Expand your search using wildcards (*):
By typing an * within a keyword, you can
match up to four letters.
Example: Try wish* to find wish, wishes,
or wishful.
Searching for web addresses:
If your search term is a URL, like "http://www.yahoo.com/",
some search engines will redirect you directly
to the URL. To avoid this behavior, and do
an actual search with the URL as the search
term, enclose the URL in double-quotes.
Fancy Features for Typical Searches
You can search more than just text. Here
are all of the other ways you can search
on the net:
link:address
Finds pages that link to the specified address,
or a substring of it. Use link:microsoft.com
to find all pages linking to Microsoft sites.
Note: this feature is not implemented on
all search engines.
text:text
Finds pages that contain the specified text
in the body of the document. By way of comparison,
searches without the "text:" attribute
will scan the URL, title, links, and META
tags as well as the document body.
title:text
Finds pages that contain the specified word
or phrase in the page title (which appears
in the title bar of most browsers). The search
title:Elvis would find pages with Elvis in
the title.
url:text
Finds pages with a specific word or phrase
in the URL. Use url:altavista to find all
pages on all servers that have the word altavista
in the host name, path, or filename - the
complete URL, in other words.
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