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<?php
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include('frontend.inc.php');
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pagehead('search-help', 'search help');
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?>
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<div class="content"><h2>About Searching</h2><div>
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As the guy who wrote the search, I'm the logical candidate to
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explain the thing. I'm not quite sure what they other guys make of
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it, except that questions about it are bounced to me with remarkable
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alacrity.<br><br>
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Without further delay, I'll cut right to the subject: taming the
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vicious search ninjas. I mean, using the search engine. Same
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difference.<br><br>
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There are two main modes to the search. There's search, which
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displays a list of results, and find, which just takes you directly
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to a strip. Both are accessible from the <a href="index.php">index page</a>.
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Hitting 'enter' or pushing the "go"
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button will initiate a normal search. Entering any text in the
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searchbox or checking any of the checkboxes will cause the find
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buttons to appear. They take you to the previous or next comic
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fitting the criteria you've provided. Or the search ninjas apologize
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for not being able to find anything, either way.<br><br>
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A brief note about the checkboxes - none checked is the same as
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all checked. It makes no difference, except that the latter may take
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slightly longer.<br><br>
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The search does a lot of interesting little things. One of the
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more useful ones is that if just put in a number and hit enter,
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you'll be taken to that strip. Go on, try it. I'll be here when you
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get back. One of the side-effects of this is that if you want to
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search for a number you have to <A HREF="search.php?q=%2242%22">enclose
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it in quotes</A>, but that's the price of convenience.<br><br>
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The most important operator is the colon. It distinguishes between
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someone speaking and what's being said. The next most important
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operator is the asterisk: *. It's a wildcard, denoting that <I>something</I>
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goes there. There's a big difference between <A HREF="search.php?q=Largo%3A">looking
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for Largo</A> and looking for <A HREF="search.php?q=*%3ALargo">someone
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talking about Largo</A>. Then there's looking for <A HREF="search.php?q=Erika%3Aidiot">Erika
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talking about Largo</A>, in which the colon makes a <A HREF="search.php?q=Erika+idiot">very
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big difference</A> in the results you get.<br><br>
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There are a few useful magic words - note the highly technical
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term. One of them is "chapter". For illustration, here's
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<A HREF="search.php?q=Kimiko+chapter%3A6">Kimiko
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in Chapter 6</A>. There's also "min" and "max",
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which do pretty much what you might expect. Just so we're clear,
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here's <A HREF="search.php?q=Piro+max%3A500+min%3A400">what
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Piro was up to between comics 400 and 500</A>. There are other magic
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words. One of them is "meta", and it's documented on the
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search page.<br><br>
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There's one deserving of special mention: "#:random". It
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takes you to a random strip within the criteria you specify. So if
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you're Alpicola, you can go to a<A HREF="search.php?q=Megumi+%23%3Arandom">
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random Megumi strip</A> with ease.<br><br>
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There may or may not be others. Explore as you will. Just watch
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out for the ninjas.<br><br>
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--Kalium
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