Basic Queries

You can write a basic query using words and phrases, separated by commas. If you want to see documents about using text editors to create Web documents, you can start with a single-word query, such as: editor

In this case, your agent finds all the documents that include the word "editor." However, this search would include not only documents about text editors, but also documents about human editors. (You don't have to specify the plural form, because a basic search includes stemmed variations, such as "editors.") Documents about the Web that did not include the word "editor" would not be retrieved.

To ask for more specific results, you could enter several words or phrases, separated by commas, that describe the subject more precisely, such as: text editor, document, web

In this case, your agent finds documents that contain "text editor," "document," or "Web." (Case doesn't matter in queries: a word entered in lower case will match words in upper case, lower case, or mixed case.) The most relevant documents, such as those that discuss creating HTML documents for the Web using a text editor, will appear at the top of the results list.