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You can use AND, OR, NOT, and parentheses to group terms.

Options:

  • Use Substring Matching to extend search
  • Exclude pages older than days
  • Choose the Area to search:
This search engine is based on Christian Neuss' ICE. I fixed several bugs, ported to CGI.pm, sped it up, and built in some highway intelligence.

Search Help

The plain vanilla Kurumi search finds all pages that contain every word in your search pattern. Sometimes this will give you too many results that aren't relevant, or will overlook something that could help you. In that case, try Power Search, which is available from any "Power Search" link, or on the results page of any search.

Search is case-insensitive
The search engine doesn't care about upper-case vs. lower-case letters. In other words,

ohio
will match 'ohio', 'Ohio', and 'OHIO'. So don't worry about the shift key!

Grouping Terms
The words and, or, and not help you tell the search engine what to include or exclude. For example,

hartford and boston
finds every page with the words 'Hartford' and 'Boston' in it. If you change this to
hartford or boston
you'll get every page with either word (which will usually result in more hits).

You can use not to tell which words a matching page should not have.

portland and not maine
returns pages which contain 'Portland', but do not contain 'Maine'.

Using not only makes sense in combination with other terms. Searching for

not manchester
will not work.

For real power, you can group terms with parentheses. An expression like

steve and not (forbes or austin)
will look for Steves that are not six(plus) million dollar men or pro westlers.

If the search expression has an error in syntax, the search engine won't try to help you that much; you'll just get an error message. If that happens, try correcting or simplifying the expression.

Searching for phrases
The search engine only indexes single words, alas. To search for a phrase, just type it in without quotes. It will end up doing an AND search for all those words, which may get you some false hits, but will hopefully find the phrase.

Searching for highways
Since much of this site concerns highways, I made the search engine a little smarter about them compared to other topics. To search for information on Interstate 280, you can type

interstate 280
or
I-280
Remember, letter case doesn't matter, so i-280 will work as well.

You can also search for US highways (try 'us 220') or any state highway (try 'fl 594'). In Connecticut, typing 'sr 664' will find the secret route SR 664, and this works for other numbers as well.

For a catch-all category, use 'route' followed by the number. For example,

route 24
will (as of this writing) find pages about US 24, MA 24, and NJ 24. (However, they all appear in the hit list as "route-24".)

Substring Matching
simply means that "mont" will match "Montana," "Vermont," "El Monte" and so on. This is on by default, but you can shut it off, so that "mont" only matches the word Mont.

Exclude Older Pages
If you want only pages that were updated at most 'mumble' days ago, type that number in the box shown. Otherwise, all pages, no matter how old, are considered.

Choose the area
Set the Area to Opinion, for example, and you can search for opinionated pages about the Golden State without getting a hit for every freeway that runs through it. Sometimes useful.