The search box is pretty powerful, here are some tips to help find what you're looking for:
- Search terms must be longer than 4 characters to return a result.
- The search is "OR" which means it matches on any of the terms. Searching for apples and oranges will return documents that have either apples or oranges.
- + (Plus): Indicates that the word must be present in the document. For example, +word will find documents containing "word".
- - (Minus): Excludes documents containing the specified word. For example, -word will exclude documents containing "word".
- " (Double Quotes): Searches for an exact phrase. For example, "exact phrase" will find documents containing the phrase "exact phrase".
- * (Asterisk): Acts as a wildcard to match zero or more characters. For example, appl* will find documents containing "apple", "apples", "application", etc.
- () (Parentheses): Groups terms together to form more complex queries. For example, (apple OR orange) AND banana will find documents containing either "apple" or "orange", as well as "banana".
And now some cool things you might not know:
- When you search for something, the terms are in address bar. So you can bookmark as many as you like and come right back to them whenever you'd like. For example: "https://medullarythyroidcancer.org/document-search.php?term=calcium" will always search for calcium. This also means you can share the search by sending it to someone else, too.
- Search results are scored on the backend based on some nerd logic, and presented with the best results first, not alphabetized.