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+ | ====== Searching the CS websites ====== | ||
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+ | We actually have several publicly viewable websites here at CS. There is the primary site and in addition several projects have their own servers. | ||
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+ | ====== DON'T PANIC ====== | ||
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+ | (OK, big but not very friendly, I'll work on that.) | ||
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+ | To help you out, there are several ways to search our site(s). | ||
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+ | ===== Extended Site Search ===== | ||
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+ | We also have an [[/ | ||
+ | pages on our CS web site and several research project sites or specialized sites CS folks are involved with. This search can be reached by either the [[/ | ||
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+ | * http:// | ||
+ | * http:// | ||
+ | * http:// | ||
+ | * http:// | ||
+ | * http:// | ||
+ | * http:// | ||
+ | * http:// | ||
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+ | The content of all html, xml, pdf, txt, java, and ppt pages on the above web sites are searchable with the extended site search. | ||
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+ | For most searching you can just type in a few words that you want to find. Swish-e will return pages containing all the words you enter. | ||
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+ | ==== To Search for a Phrase ==== | ||
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+ | To look for a phrase you need enclose it in escaped quotes(%%\" | ||
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+ | \" | ||
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+ | Which will return pages that contain the phrase //wearable computer// | ||
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+ | Leave one and two letter words out of your search as these are ignored by the indexer, so if want only pages with the phrase //will your next computer be wearable// the closest you can get is to search for: | ||
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+ | \"will your next computer wearable\" | ||
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+ | Which will get you your desired match while | ||
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+ | \"will your next computer be wearable\" | ||
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+ | Will get no matches. | ||
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+ | ==== If you know the Path or Filename ==== | ||
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+ | To look for a file by filename or path you can specify the part you know with @@swishdocpath@@, | ||
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+ | swishdocpath=cs353 | ||
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+ | The above search will show you pages which have //cs353// in their path or filename. All the course pages at www.cs.vassar.edu are in directories which begin with //cs// followed by at least the first three digits of the course number. | ||
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+ | ==== A few final options ==== | ||
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+ | Wildcard search is available with %%*%%, and of course you can specify several terms, so for our last example: | ||
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+ | Prerequisite swishdocpath=cs3* | ||
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+ | Will return all pages with the word // | ||
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+ | Now, go look around and see what you can find! | ||
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+ | --- // | ||