Help for Simple Query

Help for Simple Queries Only. Not for Advanced Queries!

(To reach the Help page for Advanced Queries, click on Advanced Query, then Help.)

: Examples of simple queries; More about Words and Phrases

If you want to get a list of all active jobs, search for something that would be common to all jobs, such as the letter 'a' or 'e'
The Jobs database stores the location of a job in the format 'COUNTRY-STATE-CITY" such as: US-GA-Atlanta
So if you want a listing of jobs in Georgia, enter your search in the format:
+"US-GA"

You may enter any combination of words or phrases. If a word has to be found, precede the word with a '+' such as +MUMPS
If a word is to be excluded, precede the word with a '-' such as: -FREE
To search for a phrase, enclose the phrase with quotes, such as "find this phrase"
You may also use the '+' and "-" qualifiers with phrases, such as
+"this phrase has to be found"

Creating a simple query

medical "application engineer" VAX: Finds documents containing as many of these words and phrases as possible; A phrase is any string of words surrounded by quotes.; A search does not distinguish between uppercase and lowercase letters. Lower-case search will find matches of capitalized words also. For example, medical will find matches for medical, Medical, and MEDICAL.
+VAX +medical -"financial application": Matches may be required, or prohibited. Precede the required word or phrase with + and the prohibited one with -. This query finds documents containing VAX and medical, but not containing the phrase financial application.

More about Words and Phrases

Words

The search treats every posting as a sequence of words. A word in this context means any string of letters and digits delimited by white space (spaces, tabs, line ends, start of document, end of document). To be a word, a string of alphanumerics does not have to be spelled correctly or be found in any dictionary. All that is required is that someone typed it as a single word in job posting. Thus, the following are words if they appear delimited in a document: HAL5000, Gorbachevnik, 602e21, www, http, EasierSaidThanDone. The following are all considered to be one word: don't, digital.com, x-y, AT&T, 3.14159, U.S., All'sFairInLoveAndWar.

Phrases

A phrase is a string of words that are contiguous in a document, although they may be separated by any amount of white space or punctuation. They do not have to be grammatical in any human language--they just have to occur in a document as a contiguous sequence of words. Some examples:

President of the U.S.A. (6-word phrase)
http://www.election.digital.com (5-word phrase)

Since the punctuation and white space are significant to the search (they delimit words), the phrases above are distinguishable from the following variants:

President of the U S A
http www election digital com

The way to enter a phrase in a query is to type the phrase as "a sequence of words separated by spaces and surrounded by double quotes".

Capitalization

Capital letters are not considered distinct from lower-case letters.

Accents

Accents are treated in the same way as capitalization. An accented word used in a query forces an exact match on the entire word. For example, if you use ÉLÉPHANT in a query, you will match only that spelling for the pachyderm.

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