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You can search for web pages that match a word, or more complex search criteria. To do this, enter your query into the search field at the lower right of browseback's web page display. Press return after entering your query, and browseback filters its web page display to show only pages that match your query.

browseback can search for a single word, as well as terms with wildcards, and boolean operators. For example browse* OR *er, shows web pages containing words that begin with browse along with pages containing words that end with er.

Note: AND, OR, and NOT are case sensitive. Therefore purple and iguana contains no boolean operators, whereas purple AND iguana does, and the results will differ.

Clearing Your Search

Click the symbol, at the end of the search field, to clear your query entirely. All of your web pages will then be shown.

Search Operators

Operator meaning
AND Boolean AND
& Boolean AND
<space> Boolean AND by default when no other operator is present
OR Boolean inclusive OR
| Boolean inclusive OR
NOT Boolean NOT
! Boolean NOT
* Wildcard for prefix or suffix; surround term with wildcard characters for substring search. Ignored in phrase searching.
( Begin logical grouping
) End logical grouping
" delimiter for phrase searching eg. "purple iguana"

Exclusion

NOT and ! can be used to exclude web pages. For example, searching for purple NOT iguana results in web pages that contain the word purple, but not the word iguana. Searches such as NOT purple are not supported, and return no results.

Examples

browseback AND disclabel AND pagesender AND PDFpen AND photoprinto

searches for web pages containing all SmileOnMyMac product names together: browseback, disclabel, pagesender, PDFpen, photoprinto.

browseback NOT www.smileonmymac.com

searches for web pages containing browseback but not on the smileonmymac website

(browseback OR disclabel) NOT www.smileonmymac.com

searches for web pages containing browseback or disclabel but not on the smileonmymac website

disc*label OR page*sender

searches for disclabel or pagesender whether or not they're misspelled with letters in-between.