Special Search Terms

Oracle SES supports the use of several special search terms that allow the user or search administrator to access additional capabilities of the Oracle SES in front of it. Following is the list of special search terms:

'Exclude' Search Term
You can exclude a word from your search by putting a minus sign [-] immediately in front of the term you want to exclude from the search results. Exclusion does not work with stop words.

Example: oracle -search

Negative search is not allowed unless there is another positive search term. For example:

-search is an invalid search.

oracle -search is a valid search.

Wildcard Search
Search for words starting with "ora". The asterisk can only be specified at the end (right side) or middle of a search term. So you cannot search for something like *earch.

Example: Ora*

Phrase Search
Search for complete phrases by enclosing them in quotation marks. Words marked in this way will appear together in all results exactly as entered.

Example: "oracle secure enterprise search"

Site Restricted Search
If you know the specific Web site you want to search, but are not sure where the information is located within that site, then search only within the specific Web site. Enter the search followed by the string "site:" followed by the host name.

Example: oracle site:text.us.oracle.com

File Type Restricted Search
The search prefix "filetype:" filters the results returned to include only documents with the extension specified immediately after. There can be no space between "filetype:"; and the specified extension.

Example: oracle filetype:doc