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A Few Search Engine Examples: mind surface
heart (Searches for articles containing
the individual words mind, surface and heart, appearing in any order)
Search Engine 1 - for the Spiritual Topics portion of this web site (primarily, but not exclusively, Inayat Khan books and papers):
Search Engine 2 - Exclusively Inayat Khan books and papers (which may exclude some useful articles about Inayat Khan and/or his philosophy):
Search Engine 3 - for this Entire Web Site (including my personal pages, calculators and technical articles):
Search for the words or phrases which you want to see in your results. You may search for phrases by enclosing the phrase with quote marks, such as "love, harmony and beauty". (Note, however, that a quoted search phrase must not contain any apostrophe, single quote or double quote.) The usefulness of your search will primarily depend upon your choice of search words. In general, searching works best for words which are uncommon, and/or when using a known phrase (enclosed in quote marks). The search is not case sensitive, so you can ignore capitalization. Note that some words, such as love, heart or beauty occur hundreds of times in these volumes. Therefore, in such cases you may receive a very large quantity of search results if you only search for one common word. You will have better results if you search for several words which you want to see near each other, such as: love harmony beauty. Try it a few times... it takes some practice to get good results.
Additional Search Syntax: The characters ", *, +, -, and ~ are powerful search modifiers which may be used to fine-tune your search. The search engine assumes you know the words or concepts which you are looking for. However, if you're a bit unsure of whether you want, for example, results with the word "desire" included or you want results with similar words such as word "longing", then you can simply put a tilde ~ in front of the word (with no space) to tell the search engine to use a thesaurus on that word. To search for a phrase, or words that must appear immediately next to each other, put the words inside of quote marks. For example, type in the phrase "doors of the heart", click on Search and you will see the context in which Inayat Khan used that exact phrase. When quote marks " " are used to specify a phrase which you want to search for, the search phrase must not contain apostrophe, single quote or double quote marks. You may use an asterisk as a wildcard to match any number of letters. For example, wh* will match why, where, when, whether, or any other word starting with the letters wh. This feature is often useful when the exact spelling is not known. You may use a + sign immediately in front of any term to indicate that it must be included in your results, and you may use a - sign immediately in front of any term which must be excluded from your results. Searches are not case sensitive, so you may ignore capitalization of all the words. For additional more advanced options, first perform a normal search, and then click
on the "Advanced" button on the search results page. Standardization of Spelling: The printed volumes of the Sufi Message were prepared by a variety
of editors over the years, and contained some inconsistent spelling.
For example, some editions used the British spelling colour while
some used color, some used Koran while others used Qur'an, and
so on. Since searching the text is very difficult with multiple
spellings of various words, such inconsistencies have been generally
standardized using contemporary American English in this on-line
edition, except in scripture and poetry. Specific references to
the book called "The Bowl of Saki" remain as "saki",
while all other uses of the word have been changed to saqi. For
more details about the standardization of spelling, please see the
end of the Glossary page.
updated 11-Sep-2024 |
