The Alkaline search engine finds documents only on the Arkansas SBDC site. To search for any information, you have to type in a sequence of words that define what you are looking for. The search engine will output a list of results, best results first. Alkaline searches exact words and parts of words only. It does not search for fuzzy or misspelled words. Alkaline does not search phrases.

Simple Search

A simple search is done by typing a word. Searching for light will find all pages containing light , light ning, delight ed, etc. It will also find pages with Light and Light ning because searching is case-insensitive by default.

Searching multiple words is done by typing a sequence of words separated by spaces. Searching for ricky blue will find all pages containing Ricky , tricky , blue , blue s, etc. Pages containing both words will be shown first in the results. Pages with these two words in the title or in meta tags will be more relevant.

Case-sensitive search can be enabled by using a single capital letter inside a word. For example, searching for Intranet let will find all pages containing Intranet and let ter, but will not list pages with just intranet . Case-sensitivity applies to the word with capital characters only.

Entire words can be searched by using quotes. Searching for "net" will find pages containing net and Net , searching for "Net" will of course find only pages containing Net because of the capital N enabling the case-sensitive search.

Searching for the word "*" will produce a list of all indexed documents. You can use this search with the search scope features to display all the indexed pages in a specific directory, or all the indexed pages dated within certain time constraints.

Boolean Search

Boolean searchs find pages containing some words and not containing others. To express the fact that a page must contain a word, a + sign must be placed in front of the word. To search for all pages not containing a word, a - sign should be used. For example, you can search +net -"Internet" which will show pages containing net , network , etc., only if they don't contain Internet . Note that searching for -word or +foo -foo will produce no results.

Refined boolean search can be done by mixing a boolean expression with normal words. Searching +net +Foo bar will sort results showing pages containing net , Foo and optionally bar first.

Forcing Search Options

By default, Alkaline will choose a case-sensitive search when at least one upper-case letter is present in a word. To search all words case-sensitive, opt:case should be added to the search string. To search all words case-insensitive, opt:insens should be used.

To search all pages containing all words, opt:and should be added to the search string. The default behavior of Alkaline is to search all pages containing any of the words and producing best results first.

To force searching of whole words only, opt:whole should be added to the search string. The default behavior of Alkaline is to do partial matches.

It is of course possible to specify more than one such option by separating them by commas or by adding multiple opt: entries to the search string, for example: foo opt:whole,case will return all pages containing the exact word "foo".

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