Help:Searching
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To locate an article, just type your query into the search box located in the menu box on the left-hand toolbar; then hit "Go" or "Search".
Tips for Effective Searches
Cases: Upper, Lower, or Both?
Searches on Judgepedia are case-insensitive.
Whether you search for "judge", "Judge" or "JUDGE", you'll get the same results.
Put Phrases in Double Quotes to Find Exactly What You Want
If you want to know if JudgePedia contains an article that is an exact match for a specific phrase, enter that phrase into the "search" box surrounded by double quotes.
Avoid Short, Common Words Because They Yield Irrelevant Results
If your search terms include common words (such as the, your, more, right, while, when, who, which, such, every, about), you may see many irrelevant results.
"Go" is Case Sensitive
The "go" function uses an algorithm to decide what page you're likely to be interested in, and this usually masks its case sensitivity - but not always.
Words in Single Quotes
If a word appears in an article with single quotes, you can only find it if you search for the word with quotes. Since this is rarely desirable, it is better to use double quotes in articles for which this problem does not arise.
An apostrophe is identical to a single quote, meaning that the name Mu'ammar can be found only by searching for exactly that (and not otherwise). A word with 's is an exception in that it can be found also by searching for the word without the apostrophe and the s.
All Search Terms Must Be Present
Only pages that contain all the words exactly as you typed them in will be returned. So if you didn't get any results, leave out one or more terms, or make sure that all search terms were spelled correctly.
The Source Text is Searched
The source text (what one sees in the edit box, also called wiki text) is searched. This distinction is relevant for piped links, for interlanguage links, special characters (if ê is coded as ê it is found searching for ecirc), etc.
Time Delay in Updating the Search Index
For reasons of efficiency and priority, very recent changes are not always immediately taken into account during searches.
References
A great deal of this article was taken or inspired by Wikipedia (11/13/07)
