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To perform a basic search, type one or more words in the Search box, select a scope, and click the Search button (or press the Enter key). The most relevant items appear at the top of the results page.
Effective search strategies
- Be specific. Use words that are unique or add descriptive words. For example, a search for java may give you too many results. If you're really looking for javabeans, specify javabeans.
- Try using synonyms. If you get too few results or the Search engine doesn't find what you're looking for, try synonyms for your search words. For example, instead of searching for java training, try java education.
- Check your spelling. A misspelled or mistyped word can skew your results.
- Adjust your scope. Use the drop-down field to refine or expand the scope of your search.
Entering search queries
Enter one or more search terms. Search isn't case sensitive, so don't worry about capitalization. The Search engine finds singular and plural forms of words.
You can define the scope of your search as follows:
| To search: | Use this scope: | Explanation |
| All of the developerWorks site | All of dW | Searches all of the developerWorks site, excluding forums. |
| Product-related areas of the developerWorks site | DB2 | Searches all of the DB2 section of developerWorks, including product articles, tutorials, downloads, demos, tips, samples, and other resources. |
| eServer | Searches all of the eServer section of developerWorks, including product articles, tutorials, downloads, and other resources. |
| Lotus | Searches all of the Lotus section of developerWorks, including product articles, tutorials, downloads, demos, tips, samples, and other resources. |
| Rational | Searches all of the Rational section of developerWorks, including product articles, training, downloads, demos, tips, samples, and other resources. |
| Tivoli | Searches all of the Tivoli section of developerWorks, including product articles, tutorials, downloads, and other resources. |
| WebSphere | Searches all of the WebSphere section of developerWorks, including product articles, tutorials, downloads, demos, tips, samples, and other resources. |
| Toolbox subscription | Searches information on Toolbox subscription and downloads for starter, professional, and enterprise subscription levels. |
| Technology-related areas of the developerWorks site | Grid computing | Searches all of the Grid computing section of developerWorks, including downloads, articles, tutorials, and other resources. |
| Java technology | Searches all of the Java technology section of developerWorks, including downloads, articles, tutorials, training, events, standards, open source projects, and other resources. |
| Linux | Searches all of the Linux section of developerWorks, including downloads, articles, tutorials, training, events, open source projects, and other resources. |
| Open source | Searches all of the open source projects section of developerWorks, including projects and patches, downloads, articles, tutorials, training, events, and other resources. |
| Web architecture | Searches all of the Web architecture section of developerWorks, including downloads, articles, tutorials, events, open source projects, and other resources. |
| Web services | Searches all of the Web services section of developerWorks, including downloads, articles, tutorials, demos, standards, events, and other resources. |
| Wireless | Searches all of the Wireless technology section of developerWorks, including downloads, articles, tutorials, events, and other resources. |
| XML | Searches all of the XML section of developerWorks, including downloads, articles, tutorials, training, events, and other resources. |
| Within a set of your search results | These results | Available only from the search results page. Searches the results set by concatonating subsequent queries to your original query. You can search within your search results up to three times. |
| developerWorks forums | dW forums | Searches all developerWorks forums. |
| Emerging technologies | alphaWorks | Searches all alphaWorks downloads. |
| IBM site | All of IBM | Redirects your query and searches the entire ibm.com site. |
Operators
You can use the following operators:
- + to find the search term in each of the results. If you don't put any operator before a search term, + is assumed.
- - to exclude pages from the results that contain the search term.
- ( ) to find at least one of the search terms in the results. Results with all of the terms are also found. You can have only one set of parentheses per query.
- " " to find the exact phrase in each of the results.
- * appended to the end of a search term to find all permutations of the word.
Some examples
| These search queries: | Yield results that contain: |
java javabeans
+java javabeans
+ java javabeans
java +javabeans
java + javabeans
+java +javabeans
+ java + javabeans
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Both java and javabeans (works the same as a Boolean AND).
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java -javabeans
java - javabeans
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java, but not javabeans. Pages that contain javabeans are excluded from the results.
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| "web services insider" |
The exact phrase web services insider.
The Search engine ignores special characters (such as &, |, !, ^, #, @, $) unless the entire phrase is enclosed in quotation marks, for example, "Kit & Kaboodle". |
| develop* |
Words that start with develop, such as developer, development, developed, and so on. |
(java xml)
("web services" soap) |
In the first example, either java or xml or both.
In the second example, either the phrase web services or the term soap or both.
Terms enclosed in parenthesis work the same as a Boolean OR. You can have only one set of parentheses per query. |
| xml ("web services" soap) |
xml and either web services or soap. |
| xml -java ("web services" soap) |
xml and either web services or soap, but not java. |
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