Basic usage:

Type in a query and the system will use any keywords (not stop words) to try and identify relevant results. The results will be given back to the user.

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Advanced usage:

A query can contain special symbols to distinguish it from a basic keyword search.

Exact match

Quotes around a keyword / phrase indicates an exact match, e.g., INPUT: How do I signup for "CSCI 1200"

Date

You can filter your search by the date the result was published / last updated (when available)

There's two syntactical ways to filter results by date in your search query

Absolute querying

[query] from [date1] to [date2?]

If date2 is omitted, then the current day will be used as date2.

Where date1 and date2 can either be of the form MM/DD/YYYY or MM/YYYY.

Relative querying

[query] within [# years/months/days]

Examples

Search for results from October 3rd, 2011 to November 13th, 2013.

CSCI 1200 from 10/03/2011 to 11/13/2013

Search for results from October 3rd, 2011 onwards

CSCI 1200 from 10/03/2011 to

Search for results from October 3rd, 2011

CSCI 1200 from 10/03/2011

Search for results from October, 2011

CSCI 1200 from 10/2011

Search for results from this year (If you only specify the time unit, it will be assumed to be 1)

CSCI 1200 within year

Wildcards

Probably will run out of time 🤣