August 2004
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The special syntaxes offered by any given full-text engine may vary. Some may offer none. Some may offer a few. Some may offer an exhaustive list. Here's an overview of what sites might offer, and how it can help your search.
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This is an overview of what full-text search engines may offer, not what individual search engines do offer. Therefore, these won't be exact syntaxes, only what you might expect to find.
Title syntax facilitates searching in titles.
GOOD FOR: Narrowing down searches without using deeply specific queries, eliminating “noise” searches.
BEWARE: Getting too specific in the title searches—titles are usually comparatively brief. Also be aware that not all Webmasters use page ...
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