How to make the most of the search engine
Here are some brief rules:
- Results will match ALL words input into the search box. For example, searching for the programme HOPE IN THE CITIES, will find all pages where any one of the words exist. Today that gives 1 478 hits. But....
- To find an exact phrase put it in DOUBLE quote marks (""). "Hope in the cities" will find only those pages where the combination of these four words are uses used, in that order. Today that is 328, that actually is about the programme, and not about 'hope' or 'cities'.
- Searches are not case sensitive, either in terms of what you enter or in terms of what is found.
Results are presented in order of perceived relevance, with weighting given to matches of the word(s):
- in the Title of a page
- in the type of content, categories, etc
- in other shorter text fields
- in the longer text fields
- in attached files
You can filter your results by further criteria, using the blue FILTERS buttons which pops up a new side window:
- by type of content (person, publication, film, article, etc)
- by whether the content has an attached text file (e.g. PDF of a book), audio (e.g. recording of a meeting), video, or whether it is a picture
- by language
- time period: you can choose a Min and a Max year - though not all content has this information.
Results are by default sorted by the perceived relevance, but you can change the sort order to display in alphabetical order of Title, or by Date added (newest or oldest).
There are also two different views of the results: a GRID (cards) view or a LIST view which you can select via the icons to the right of the sort order drop down.
Open How to make the most of the search engine configuration options