Searches are case sensitive. Put the term in quotes to prevent stemming. NCSU has found metatags are useful in ranking results. Someone said that they used metatags and it brought up the ranking of their page to sixth, but not to the top. It might be nice to have a search page that has all the collections selected but lets you click on the ones you don't want included.
Wild cards can be at the end or imbedded.
Libby said that if you search on teach, stemming will also cause Verity to search for taught. Someone mentioned that the results page may have entries for pages not at UNC-CH, because Verity indexes every reference, including URLs. Someone asked if we could turn that off. There was interest in learning more about how to search part of a collection. Libby handed out out a list of 20 questions for us to see if we could find answers.