Special Syntaxes on Searchable Subject Indexes
As you might expect, the special syntaxes for searchable subject indexes are much more limited, since they don't index all of a Web site or even a Web page. In fact there are pretty much only two: for title and URL.
The same caveats that apply to the full-text engine syntax apply to the searchable subject index syntax, only more so. Titles are used for sites, not individual pages, so your search terms must be fairly general. Furthermore, a subject index editor may not use a site's actual title, but more of a descriptive title, something the editor came up with to describe the site. This is another argument for general search terms. When it comes to URLs, it's the same case. Site URLs are included ...
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