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Two search engines are availabe to search within GTPlanet. The Google Site Search is best for most general queries: it searches all sections of the website, including the News and Guides sections. The advanced search searches only within the forum but allows you to construct more specific queries. In addition to the advanced search tools, you can also use many operators to further manipulate the results:
+ A leading plus sign indicates that this word must be present in each row that is returned.
- A leading minus sign indicates that this word must not be present in any of the rows that are returned.
By default (when neither + nor – is specified) the word is optional, but posts that contain it are rated higher.
~ A leading tilde acts as a negation operator, causing the word’s contribution to the row’s relevance to be negative. This is useful for marking “noise” words. A row containing such a word is rated lower than others, but is not excluded altogether, as it would be with the – operator.
* The asterisk serves as the truncation operator. Unlike the other operators, it should be appended to the word to be affected.
” A phrase that is enclosed within double quote (‘”’
characters matches only posts that contain the phrase literally, as it was typed. For example, “test phrase” does not match “test, phrase”.
Some common words (such as “and”, “the”, “that”, etc.) are ignored in searches.
Keywords can be no less than 4 characters and no longer than 20 characters in length.
