Use the following techniques to obtain the most relevant search results. Enter words and phrases that are relevant to your topic. Use quotation marks, capitals, and commas to make your search more specific. Using quotation marks to identify a phrase is the most powerful way to narrow your results. Without quotation marks, lower-case words will be searched individually, and they may or may not all be present in the resulting documents.
Capitals make general terms more specific.
A search for next finds countless pages that use the word next . However, a search for NeXT finds 415 pages that all mention the NeXT computer. Commas ensure that Stanford Search will combine your words and phrases as you intended. Search within your results. Making Your Content More Searchable You can use features of the Stanford Search engine to make your own Web content more accessible.