You can also use wildcards (asterisks) to search for matches to the beginnings of words only - you can't put asterisks at the front or in the middle of words.

example 1:  john and doe or jane
example 2:  john and (doe or not jane)
example 3:  not (john or jane) and doe
example 4:  j* and doe

You can also search the World Wide Web by entering a query in the text field below, selecting a popular Search Engine from the popup menu and clicking the Search butoon.

If you'd like to query more than one Search Engine at once, you might want to try our Keep It Simple Search applet.