Using Query Syntax

Enter words, phrases or query syntax. 

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See the Verity Query Language Reference Guide V3.0 for Details

Example Search Strategies 

Enter one of the example, red-colored "query strings" into the above search field to try one of the following examples:
title=""
This query string returns all documents not having an HTML title.
title<contains>Netcenter
This query string returns all documents having the word "netcenter" in their title.
url<contains>nba.uth.tmc.edu/ 
This query syntax returns all documents having URLs that contain the fully qualified domain "name nba.uth.tmc.edu" (Dept. of Neurobiology and Anatomy: Medical School).
date > 10/31/2003 <not>url<contains>.cfm<not>url<contains>.asp
This syntax will return all documents published or modified after 10/31/2003 but not documents that have a ".cfm" of "Asp" in their URL Documents with these suffixes normally are not static but rather are dynamic HTML documents.
url<contains>/hoop/ 
This query syntax returns all documents having URLs that contain the directory "/hoop/".
url<contains>/hoop/ and travel
This syntax returns all documents having URLs that contain the directory "/hoop/" and also the word "travel".
publisher.component<contains>Academic Computing
This query string returns all documents published by Academic Computing. Information regarding the "publisher.component" metatag and its use at U. T. Houston is available.

University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
Academic Computing
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