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To find information about a topic, simply type in a few keywords. The more detailed your query, the more relevant your results.

Our search engine also comes with some advanced capabilities to help you find exactly what you're looking for. These capabilities are best shown with a few examples:


Translated: require bga, require x-ray
Finds "bga", "bga x-ray", and "x-ray for bga inspection".


Translated: forbid x-ray, require bga
Finds "bga", "bga inspection", and lowercase "bga".
Does not find "x-ray for bga" nor "BGA x-ray".



Translated: prefer CGI, require scripts
Finds "x-ray", "x-ray for bga", and "bga".
Documents with both terms appear higher in the list.



Translated: require the phrase "BGA x-ray"
Finds "BGA x-ray".
Does not find "bga x-ray" nor "x-ray for bga".



Translated: require bga (case insensitive), require words starting with "inspect"
Finds "bga inspection", "BGA inspection", "bga inspector".
The asterisk is a wildcard representing any four or fewer characters.



Translated: require inspection (case sensitive), require pipe, forbid bga, prefer non-destructive
First lists "pipe inspection", then "non-destructive inspection".
Does not list uppercase "pipe inspection", nor forbidden "bga inspection".



Translated: ignores common words like where, is, and the - requires words containing "inspect"
Finds "inspect", "inspection", and "inspector".
To suppress the ignore feature, use quotes, as in "Where is the *inspect*?".


Note on case sensitivity - only words or phrases containing an upper case character will be treated as case sensitive. A search on "usa" will match "Usa", "USA", and "usA", while the term "USA" matches only its uppercase version.

The asterisk is a powerful search tool, but has some limitations. It cannot span words - that is, the query "powerfu*earch" would not match the first sentence of this paragraph - and it can represent at most four letters or numbers. To avoid overly broad searches, the asterisk can only be used in words or phrases which have at least three alpha-numeric characters.