The Evanescence Reference:Searching

This article provides a detailed overview of The Evanescence Reference's search feature.

Enter your keywords in the search box.

• Go - (or Enter on keyboard) takes you to the article.
• Search - returns a list of articles and additional search options.

Tips for effective searches

Go is case sensitive

The "go" function uses an algorithm to decide what page you're likely to be interested in, and this usually masks its case sensitivity - but not always.

Avoid short and common words

If your search terms include a common "stop word" (such as "the", "your", "more", "right", "while", "when", "who", "which", "such", "every", "about"), you may see many irrelevant results.

Words in single quotes

If a word appears in an article with single quotes, you can only find it if you search for the word with quotes. Since this is rarely desirable, it is better to use double quotes in articles for which this problem does not arise.

An apostrophe ( ' ) is identical to a single quote, therefore the name Mu'ammar can be found only by searching for exactly that (and not otherwise). A word with 's is an exception in that it can be found also by searching for the word without the apostrophe and the s.

Delay in updating the search index

For reasons of efficiency and priority, very recent changes are not always immediately taken into account in searches.

External search engines

Various search engines can provide domain-specific searches, which let you search The Evanescence Reference specifically. Searches are based on the text as shown by the browser, so wiki markup is irrelevant. Depending on your browser, you may also be able to use tools that allow you to search The Evanescence Reference using bookmarklets.

In general, external search engines are faster than an Evanescence Reference search. However, because the search engine's cache is based on when the site was indexed, the search may not return newly created pages. Similarly, the search engine's cached version of the page will not be as up-to-date as the link to The Evanescence Reference itself.

These issues may be less of a problem when using certain search engines that process The Evanescence Reference differently. For example, Google tends to include The Evanescence Reference as part of its normal search, and it comes up fairly accurately.

If you cannot find an appropriate page on The Evanescence Reference

If there is no appropriate page on The Evanescence Reference, consider creating a page, since anyone can edit The Evanescence Reference right now. Or consider requesting what you were looking for to the The Evanescence Reference talk:Community Portal page where our volunteers can probably answer any question you can possibly imagine.

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