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TSEP search engine by default searches for all the given words and displays the page which has the all given search words. The minimum number of characters for a word to perform a search is 4. Listed below is an example of the boolean search used in the TSEP.

apple banana

find pages that contain at least one of these words.

+apple +banana

find pages that contain both words.

+apple macintosh

word "apple", but rank it higher if it also contains "macintosh".

+apple -macintosh

word "apple" but not "macintosh".

+apple +(>pie

"apple" and "pie", or "apple" and "strudel" (in any order), but rank "apple pie" higher than "apple strudel".

apple*

"apple", "apples", "applesauce", and "applet". * represents 0 or more characters and can only occur at the end of a search word!

"some words"

find pages that contain the exact phrase "some words" (for example, pages that contain "some words of wisdom" but not "some noise words").

A search word which is a stopword will not be searched on or marked in the results. Besides the user defined stopwords there might be stopwords pre-defined by the administrator. Stopwords the administrator has defined are:

"free" "game" "games" "pcman" "the pcman" "website"

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