Site Search Engine Tips
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Source Search
| -- Match Search (default) -- | ||
| Albert Einstein | Finds sources with 'Albert' and 'Einstein' in them. Only finds whole words, but will search both upper and lower case versions as well as accounting for many foreign characters. | |
| -- Wildcard Search -- | ||
| Will | Match (above) only picks up instances of 'will', but Wildcard will find any word containing 'will', e.g. William, Willis, Willard, Williams, Williamson, Wills etc. Wildcard Search is available after doing a Match Search | |
| -- Specific Search -- | ||
| BIRTH: 1930 | Finds sources born during 1930 | |
| DEATH: 1950 | Finds sources who died during 1950 | |
| OCC: writer | Finds sources who are/were writers | |
| NAT: British | Finds sources who are British. Note: you can also use hyphens e.g. Irish-American | |
| ID: 435 | Finds source indexed by unique id code 435 | |
Quotation Search
| -- Match Search (default for first 5 results AND multiple word searches) -- | ||
| It is easy when we are in prosperity to give advice to the afflicted. | Finds quotations that match the search terms closest. Ranked in order of closeness of match. First five results returned are by Match Search. If multiple words contained in search term, further results are by Match Search. | |
| -- Wildcard Search (default for single word searches) -- | ||
| dissent | Finds individual words in various forms, for example dissention, dissenters, dissenting, whereas Match would only find 'dissent'. Note: Will ONLY work if ONE search term is used. Multiple words will automatically employ use of a Match Search. Also note, the top five results are still conducted with a Match Search. | |
| -- Specific Search -- | ||
| ID: 435 | Finds quotation indexed by unique id code 435 | |
Poem Title Search and MyQuotes User Search both use Match Searching for respective searches.
Error checking is peformed on searchterm, removing BOOLEAN and other characters, though not hyphens. A warning will be issued on use of a searchterm smaller than 3 characters. Bypass this by inserting blank spaces in front of search term.