How Perceptive Search finds

To search indexes you provide Perceptive Enterprise Search with a query. Perceptive Enterprise Search then matches your query to the documents in the selected index and lists all results that match your query. The quickest way to create a search is to type in a single word. Perceptive Enterprise Search will search its records and display all documents that contain that single word.

In many cases, however, a single word is not precise enough and will retrieve too many documents. Perceptive Enterprise Search uses five systems to help you narrow your search:

• The Menu-Assisted query facility allows you to construct a query which consists of words, phrases, proximity, boolean, structured and unstructured searching, all by simply typing words and point-and-click.
• The Command Based query facility exposes the full power of the Perceptive Enterprise Search query syntax, and enables you to quickly and concisely express precisely what you are looking for; as simple or as complex as you like.
• The Web Style query facility lets you type queries using syntax similar to that used on major public Internet search engines. While only providing a fraction of the power of the query syntax it provides a more familiar means of expressing queries.
• The Concept Taxonomy is a hierarchical taxonomy of concepts that allows you to navigate through an outline view which describes the structure of the information held within the index. The Concept Taxonomy is built by the administrator using Utilities and can take whatever form you require. The Concept Taxonomy is a great place to start if you don't even know what sort of information exists in an index.
• Natural language queries allow you to type a simple, plain English description of what it is you would like found. Perceptive Enterprise Search uses its knowledge of the contents of your documents combined with various linguistic techniques to find the set of documents that most precisely and concisely matches what you have asked for.

Your website may externalize as many of these search options as you wish.  The new websites created will automatically include Menu-Assisted, Advanced Search, Natural Language and a Web Style search options.