Your search experience can be restricted or improved by your understanding of the search syntax, and of the various parameters that define the search environment. The search syntax is the way you write the query, which implies the use of operators, and special characters such as parentheses, quotation marks or wildcards. The search syntax is documented at the beginning of this chapter in Run a simple search, and Run an advanced search. The search environment corresponds to the circumstances when the query is run; that is: the repository configuration, external sources configuration, the configuration of your WDK application. All these parameters are not visible nor accessible to users; however, they should be taken into consideration when running queries in order to get the most relevant results.

This section describes these aspects that influence your search experience: