Search syntax and examples
- Multiple words
- Results must contain all the words you type.
yocto layer— articles containing both terms. - Word variants (stemming)
- Common endings are folded together automatically.
releasematches release, releases, releasing.
buildmatches build, builds, building. - Partial words (prefix)
- A short word matches anything starting with it.
embedmatches embedded, embedding.
Matching happens on word stems, so a short query may surface related words that share a stem. Highlighted words in the snippet show why each result matched. - Common words ignored
- Stop words such as the, a, of, and, to are skipped. Search by content words instead.
- Case
- Search is case-insensitive.
Linuxandlinuxmatch the same things. - Punctuation
- Punctuation is treated as a word break. Hyphens and dashes split a phrase into separate words.
- Linkable searches
- You can deep-link a query with
?q=.
/search/?q=platform