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By default, the search engine will show you pages with the words you entered.  It  tries to locate pages which have exact matches for all of the words you entered in your search query. If that fails, it then tries to locate pages which contain any words in your search query. If that happens a short message is displayed at the top of the search results indicating this has been done.

In addition, there are several ways to modify the default search behavior.

1. + and - qualifiers
You can add + to a word that is required to be on the page.
You can add - to a word that is required not to be on the page.
Example: "+always -never"
2.* wildcard
You can end a query word with * to find all words on a page which start the same way.
Example: "gift*" could find gift, gifts, gifted.
3.? wildcard
You can put ? in a query word to find words which contain any character in that position.
Example: "b?g" could find bag, big, bug.

All of these techniques can be combined.
Example: "+alway* -ne??r*"

Sources

Images

Originals and masters of images on this site are held in the Local Studies Collection, Pittwater Library Service at Mona Vale Library, and are copyright Pittwater Council. For further information please call Virginia or Sally on 9997 5422 or send an email .

Subdivision Maps

Originals of subdivision maps on this site are held in the Mitchell Library, State LIbrary of New South Wales. To order photographic prints, contact the State Library’s Document Delivery Service on 9273 1440, fax 9273 1254, or email dds@slnsw.gov.au . To publish these maps, apply to Jennifer Broomhead, the Intellectual Property and Copyright Librarian, at the State Library on 9273 1468, or send an email . A publishing fee is payable. Copies printed from this site may be used for reference purposes only.