Town of Scarborough, Maine - Search/Site Map
Search Tips
| The search engine supports boolean operators (AND, OR, NOT) and is not case-sensitive. Words separated by spaces imply an AND search. Use parentheses to control precedence. You can also use wildcards (asterisks), but only at the end of a word. When using wildcards, the boolean operators (AND, OR, NOT) should not be omitted and the wildcarded words should be in parentheses. | |
| Examples | |
|---|---|
| zoning planning dunstan | searches for documents with the words "zoning" AND "planning" AND "dunstan" in them |
| (town*) AND (park*) | searches for documents that have words that contain "town" AND "park" - which includes town, downtown, park, parking, and so on |
| animal AND license NOT dog | searches for documents with the words "animal" AND "license" but NOT "dog" |
| zoning AND planning AND ((pine*) OR (blue*)) | searches for documents with the words "zoning" AND "planning" AND words containing either "pine" OR "blue" |
| The ranking by numeric scores depends on how many times the keyword was found in a file relative to the size of the file. This search engine was implemented using the SWISH-E software. | |
