Using the Search facility

This website is now equipped with page-searching capabilities, therefore, this brief article has been written to document the Search facility's use.

Basic Usage

To use the Search facility, simply type in the word(s) or phrase you wish to find amongst the pages on the site in the text-box, located just above the page navigation box and just below the site logo, then click on the Search button located to the right of the text-box.

If the search was successful, a page of search results will appear, complete with links to pages on the site matching your search query.

The number of results displayed on a search results page never exceeds 10. If the number of results exceeds 10, the search results will be divided amongst a number of pages, each with at least 10 results displayed. To navigate between results pages, click on the numbered links just above the horizontal line.

Search Options

  • To search for a single word, just type word (where word is the word you wish to find)

  • To search for a phrase, i.e. a sequence of words that are strictly found in the order specified and are strictly contiguous, type "word1 word2 word3....word_n" or word1+word2+word3+....+word_n For example, to search for the phrase 'The quick brown fox' type in either "The quick brown fox" or The+quick+brown+fox

  • To search for a set of words that are not necessarily contiguous nor found in a particular order, however the page must contain all of the words featured in the search query, type word1 word2 word3...word_n (this is logically equivalent to word1 AND word2 AND word3....AND word_n). For example, to search for a page that contains both the words "grizzly" and "bear" just type grizzly bear

  • To search for a set of words that are not necessarily contiguous nor found in a particular order, however the page must contain at least one of the words featured in the search query, type word1 OR word2 OR word3...OR word_n For example to search for a page that contains the words "cowardly" or "lion", type cowardly OR lion

Last updated on 29 April 2006 at 08:00:50 UTC