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Help
Using Panoptic Search
Panoptic is a powerful search engine developed in Australia by the CSIRO. The following is a list of tips and commands for getting better search reults.
| Plurals and CaPitAL LeTterS: |
It doesn't matter if you use CaPitAL LeTterS but plurals do matter.
Example: GRADUATES
This will find any page containing the word "graduates" but not "graduate". |
To do plurals, add a hash # to the end of the word.
Example: GRADUATE# |
| Common words: |
Common words are removed, unless your query is three words or less.
Example: Rain and lots and lots of it
This will be treated as "rain lots" to ignore the thousands of pages containing "and, of, it". |
| Phrases or adjacent words: |
To search for a phrase or to use common words, use quotes to enclose the phrase.
Example: "Exam Timetable"
This will ignore "bus timetables during exams". |
| Use `backquotes` instead for non-exact phrases (words written near eachother.) |
| Part of a word: |
To search for part of a word, use an asterix. You can use an asterix before or after a word, but not inside.
Example: econo*
This will find words like "Economy", "econometric" and "Econovan". |
| Ignore a word: |
To find pages that contain one word but not another, use an exclaimation point.
Example: math !easy
This will fully match pages containing "math" and without "easy". Pages that do have "easy" will be included as a partial match. |
| Exclude a word: |
To exclude results that contain a word, use the minus sign.
Example: Sutton -Gerard
This will find any pages containing "Sutton" BUT entirely exclude all pages containing "Gerard". |
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