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The search page features a search box, with some links to search domains beneath it. (For information on what can by typed into the search box, see Search string syntax above.) The main difference between this search box and the one that appears on article pages is that exact matches on this one will not navigate you directly to an article page.
For example a search for "phenom" AND "lecture", with the templates Search link and regexp having the weighting score of the pages they are on multiplied by 1.5 and 2.25 respectively, ignoring all other templates (halting the addition of any score for any other template): phenom lecture boost-templates:"Template:search link|150% tlusage|225%"
The easiest way to search on AOL Search is to simply type a word or a phrase that describes what you're looking for in the search box on search.aol.com, then click Search or press the Enter key. If you are looking for images or video information, try one of our specialized search features. Just select the appropriate link below the search box.
The name of the template is Search link, or sl for short. The second and third parameters are optional and have defaults, so the short form is {{sl|query}}. Both a search link and a search box go to the same search engine. The same query produces the same result. The basic search covers articles.
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Ordered search within the Google and Yahoo! search engines is possible using the asterisk (*) full-word wildcards: in Google this matches one or more words, [9] and an in Yahoo! Search this matches exactly one word. [10] (This is easily verified by searching for the following phrase in both Google and Yahoo!: "addictive * of biblioscopy".)
In a larger search engine, the process of finding each word in the inverted index (in order to report that it occurred within a document) may be too time consuming, and so this process is commonly split up into two parts, the development of a forward index and a process which sorts the contents of the forward index into the inverted index.
For example, a search for red apple may return records that contain the word "apple," ones that contain "red," and ones that contain both words no matter where in the record they appear (that is, assuming the search engine applies Boolean OR logic to its keyword search function), whereas a search for "red apple" will only return records that ...