Text Search

Use the form below to search for columns and other documents in the Major Cox Archives containing specific words or combinations of words. The text search engine displays a weighted list of matching documents, with better matches shown first. Each list item is a link to a matching document. A brief explanation of the query language is available below, along with examples.

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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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