The DPZ text search engine accepts queries using expressions containing the keywords AND, OR, NOT and NEAR. These expressions can also be grouped with parentheses to further refine your search.

"AND" and "NEAR" SEARCH
The following example returns documents that display zoning and ordinance on the same page. Use the keyword, "NEAR" (Zoning NEAR Ordinance) to return the same pages ranked in order of proximity. The closer together the words, the higher the rank of the page.

"OR" SEARCH
In this example, all pages that contain the word zoning or the word ordinance, or both zoning and ordinance, will be returned.

SEARCH BY PHRASE
Use quotation marks to search for a complete phrase. Without quotation marks, this query would search all pages for occurences of the words zoning and ordinance—not necessarily those two words in that order.

"AND NOT" SEARCH
This query will return all instances of zoning but not those containing ordinance.

WILDCARD SEARCH
Search for words with the same prefix by adding an asterisk to your search term. The term comp* will return documents with the words; comp, comprehensive, complaint, etc. By adding two asterisks to the end of a word, your search will return all forms of the word. Example: Enter zone** to find zoning, zoned, and zone.

CASE SENSITIVITY
Searches are not case sensitive.