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*Excluded words: very common words are ignored by most search engines. Words such as women, WEL and feminism, which appear on just about every page, have been excluded from this site search. You can still find excluded words as part of a phrase which you enclose in double quotation marks. (This is also the quickest way to find references to names.)

Case sensitivity: only words or phrases containing an upper case character will be treated as case sensitive. A search on 'qld' will match 'Qld', 'QLD', 'qlD' etc, while the term 'QLD' matches only its uppercase version.

The asterisk is a powerful search tool, but has some limitations. It cannot span words - that is, the query 'powerfu*earch' would not match the first sentence of this paragraph - and it can represent at most four letters or numbers. To avoid overly broad searches, the asterisk can only be used in words or phrases which have at least three alpha-numeric characters. A search for 'th*' would be ignored.

The Xavatoria search engine also comes with some advanced capabilities to help you find exactly what you're looking for. These capabilities are best shown with a few examples:

This means: require QLD, require working
Finds 'QLD Working', 'QLD working', and 'working in QLD'.
Does not find the lowercase 'qld working', nor the shorter 'QLD work'.

This means: forbid QLD, require work
Finds 'ACT work', 'Casual work', and lowercase 'qld work'.
Does not find 'QLD laws' nor 'QLD work'.

This means: prefer QLD, require work
Finds 'ACT work', 'QLD work', and 'QLD Work'.
Documents with both terms appear higher in the list.

This means: require the phrase 'QLD work'
Finds 'QLD work'.
Does not find 'QLD Work' nor 'work in QLD'.

This means: require qld (case insensitive), require words starting with 'work'
Finds 'QLD work', 'qld working', 'Qld worker'.
The asterisk is a wildcard representing any four or fewer characters.

This means: require Jupiter (case sensitive), require pictures, forbid planet, prefer images
First lists 'pictures and images of Jupiter', then 'Jupiter pictures'.
Does not list lowercase 'venus picture', nor forbidden 'picture of planet Jupiter'.

This: ignores common words like where, is, and the
requires words containing 'frog'
Finds 'frog', 'frogleg', and 'bullfrog'.
To suppress the ignore feature, use quotes, as in 'Where is the *frog*?'.

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