Search the Methodist Temple Site

Search for pages in this web containing specific words or combinations of words. The text search engine will display a list of matching pages. Each list item is a link to a matching page; if the page has a title it will be shown, otherwise only the page's file name is displayed. This will not include words in the Temple Topics.   A brief explanation of the query language is available, along with examples.

Query Language

The text search engine allows queries to be formed from arbitrary Boolean expressions containing the keywords AND, OR, and NOT, and grouped with parentheses. For example:

information retrieval

finds documents containing 'information' or 'retrieval'

information or retrieval

same as above

information and retrieval

finds documents containing both 'information' and 'retrieval'

information not retrieval

finds documents containing 'information' but not 'retrieval'

(information not retrieval) and WAIS

finds documents containing 'WAIS', plus 'information' but not 'retrieval'

web*

finds documents containing words starting with 'web'