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How the Search Engine Works

TexasHealthOption's search engine provides a way to limit searches to:

• all files, except the archive, or one section of the site at a time.
  
• pages created or updated "today," in the "last 7 days" or "last 30 days."
  
• "all words," "any words," "an exact phrase" or a "conjunction" to help you find the right page.

The search engine also:

• sorts results, in most cases, from newest to oldest.
  
• defaults to "all words" after each new search, while other restrictions remain as set.

Choose Words Carefully

The "any words" option

finds the greatest number of pages. With "any words," common words, such as health or insurance, will produce a large number of results.

The "all words" option

finds only those pages that include all the words typed into the search box.

The "exact phrase" option

finds only those pages with the words in the exact order typed.

The "conjunction" option

allows searching for two phrases or a phrase and a word if you use the keywords AND or NEAR or AND NOT. Examples include: health AND cobra or cobra AND continuation. You can search for a word or phrase NEAR another word or phrase. NEAR checks for instances where the search words or phrases are on the same page. The closer they are, the higher the page ranks. Another choice under "conjunction" is to exclude certain material by searching with the keywords AND NOT. Examples include: "cobra" AND NOT "continuation".

Example Searches

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