Powerful web page searching with the NEAR command

The NEAR command in SurfSaver offers you a way to accurately locate web pages stored in SurfSaver by searching for a word by it's position to another word. In other words the NEAR command enables you to find web pages where words are a specific number of words, lines, sentences of paragraphs apart. You can also set the near command to locate pages where words appear in the same sentence, line, or paragraph.

To use the near command simply load SurfSaver and start a SurfSaver Search. In the FULL TEXT box type in the words you are looking for separated by the NEAR command. This will locate the pages where the words appear within 5 words of each other. For example:

    illegal NEAR search

You can modify how the NEAR command will function by choosing the OPTIONS button at the bottom right of the SEARCH dialog. The NEAR SEARCH option allows you to define the NEAR command by setting the specific number and direction (words, lines, sentences, paragraphs) of the search. This option will also allow you to set the NEAR command to find pages where words appear in the same sentence, line or paragraph.

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