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TIP: Search in 'Keywords' on the name, e-mail address, or web site of a trader to see if they have any reviews or feedback in the Trading Reports on this site.
Search Rules
This search engine helps you find documents on this website, including posts in the InsectNet.com Forum. Here's how it works: you tell the search service what you're looking for by typing in keywords, phrases, or questions in the search box. The search service responds by giving you a list of all the Web pages in our index relating to those topics. The most relevant content will appear at the top of your results.
How To Use:
- Type your keywords in the search box.
- Press the Search button to start your search.
Here's an example:
- Type 'papilio' in the search box (without the quotes).
- Press the Search button or press the Enter key.
- The Results page will show you numerous pages on the site about the genus Papilio.
Tip: Don't worry if you find a large number of results. In fact, use more than a couple of words when searching. Even though the number of results will be large, the most relevant content will always appear at the top of the result pages.
More Basics - An Overview
What is an Index?
Webster's dictionary describes an "index" as a sequential arrangement of material. Our index is a large, growing, organized collection of Web pages and discussion group pages from InsectNet.com. The 'index' becomes larger every day as users add messages in our Forum or when the administrator adds new pages to the site. When you use our search service, you search the entire collection using keywords or phrases. The only pages you cannot find using this search engine are ads from The Insect Classifieds. Those pages must be searched using the Classifieds search engine exclusively.
What is a Word?
When searching, think of a word as a combination of letters and numbers. The search service needs to know how to separate words and numbers to find exactly what you want on the Internet. You can separate words using white space and tabs.
What is a Phrase?
You can link words and numbers together into phrases if you want specific words or numbers to appear together in your result pages. If you want to find an exact phrase, use "double quotation marks" around the phrase when you enter words in the search box.
Simple Tips for More Exact Searches
Searches are case insensitive. Searching for "Fur" will match the lowercase "fur" and uppercase "FUR".
By default, all searches are accent insensitive as well, but administrators can change this setting. Accent sensitivity relates to Latin characters like õ.
Including or excluding words:
To make sure that a specific word is always included in your search topic, place the plus (+) symbol before the key word in the search box. To make sure that a specific word is always excluded from your search topic, place a minus (-) sign before the keyword in the search box.
Example: To find information on Papilio except for Papilio zelicaon, try "papilio -zelicaon" (without the quotes).
Expand your search using wildcards (*):
By typing an * within a keyword, you can match up to four letters.
Example: Try wish* to find wish, wishes, or wishful.
Searching for web addresses:
If your search term is a URL, like "http://www.yahoo.com/", some search engines will redirect you directly to the URL. To avoid this behavior, and do an actual search with the URL as the search term, enclose the URL in double-quotes.
Fancy Features for Typical Searches
You can search more than just text. Here are all of the other ways you can search on the net:
title:text
Finds pages that contain the specified word or phrase in the page title (which appears in the title bar of most browsers). The search title:Endangered find pages with 'endangered' in the title.
url:text
Finds pages with a specific word or phrase in the URL. Use url:bookstore to find all pages on InsectNet.com that have the word 'bookstore' in the host name, path, or filename - the complete URL, in other words.
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