Petsdoc Search supports a number of different methods for performing searches.
Description Search
Simply describe the information that you want. For example, Canine skin disease causing itching.
Question Search
Ask a question that you want answered. For example, What diseases cause dogs to itch?
Keyword Search
List important keywords relevant to your search topic. For example, dog itch skin
Boolean Keyword Search
Refine a keyword search using boolean operators.
Symbol
Meaning
Action
& AND Finds only documents containing all of the specific words or phrases. For example, performance and server finds documents with both the word performance and the word server. | OR Finds documents containing at least one of the specified words or phrases. For example, performance | server finds documents containing either performance or server. The found documents could contain both, but do not have to. ! AND NOT Excludes documents containing the specific word or phrase. For example, performance ! server finds documents containing performance but not containing server. As with the and and | operators, ! must appear between two terms. [ ] Grouping Used to group portions of boolean queries together for more complicated queries. For example, performance and [improve | increase] ! Microsoft finds documents containing performance and either improve or increase but not Microsoft. Similar Document Search
After you perform an initial search, every matching document description will contain a More like this link that allows you to automatically search for similar documents.