Search Form

Use the form below to search for documents in Handtub Junction, USA containing specific words or combinations of words. The text search engine will display a weighted list of matching documents, with better matches shown first. Each list item is a link to a matching document; if the document has a title it will be shown, otherwise only the document's file name is displayed. A brief explanation of the query language is available, along with examples.

You can also use this page to somewhat seach the Handtub Database. Say for example you wanted to find all the hand engines connected to a particular place. Lets take Springfield, MA. for example. If you were to enter "Springfield, MA" you would get more than you bargined for, not only would you get pages with "Springfield" in them, you would also get all the pages on HJUSA that have "MA" in them. So you would be better off just putting "Springfield". See below for further details.

Query Language

The text search engine allows queries to be formed from arbitrary Boolean expressions containing the keywords AND, OR, and NOT, and grouped with parentheses. For example:

information retrieval

finds documents containing 'information' or 'retrieval'

information or retrieval

same as above

 

information and retrieval

finds documents containing both 'information' and 'retrieval'

information not retrieval

finds documents containing 'information' but not 'retrieval'

(information not retrieval) and WAIS

finds documents containing 'WAIS', plus 'information' but not 'retrieval'

web*

finds documents containing words starting with 'web'

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