| Default search type |
All of your words |
| Case sensitive? |
No |
| Wildcard/Truncation |
Yes. Asterisk (*) at the end of words, for example
pollut*. Also pattern matching/regular
expressions for internal wildcards, for example /psych.*ist/
or /mpg(1|2|3)?/ |
| Phrases and proximity |
Phrases "……" For example "climate
change". NEAR operator to search for terms within
sixteen words of one another. Specify maximum number of words using
NEAR/n, for example climate NEAR/5
change |
| Mandatory search terms |
Plus sign (+) before stop words such as "the",
"of". The plus sign can also be used to disable automatic
stemming if set up by the user under preferences. |
| Exclude pages containing a term |
Minus sign (-) before the word, for example
branson -balloon |
| Word in the URL |
inurl: for
pages with the term in their URL, for example inurl:chocolate
|
| Word in title |
intitle: for
pages that contain the adjacent word in the title, for example intitle:chocolate
|
| Linked pages |
link: for example
link:rba.co.uk |
| Similar pages |
No |
| Limit by domain/site |
site: to limit
by part of a domain name, for example site:uk
for UK sites or to search one specific web site, for example site:statistics.gov.uk
|
| File type |
filetype: for
example filetype:pdf. Options
for RSS, video and audio files only accessible via the buttons on
the results page. |
| Cached copy available |
Yes. Click on the thumbnail of the document in the
results list, or on any area of the entry in the results list that
is not hyperlinked. |
| Boolean search |
AND, OR, NOT (must be in capital letters). Nested Boolean
searches using parentheses supported, for example (chocolate
OR confectionery) AND (production OR manufacture) AND (Belgium OR
Austria OR Switzerland) |
| Specify language |
language: followed
by the ISO two letter country code, for example
language:de for pages written in German. |
| Limit by country |
Advanced Search |
| Limit by date |
date: To limit
your search to documents modified after a certain date. Use the
format dd/mm/yyyy. For example: "peak
oil" date:25/01/2006 |
| Unique features |
Phonetic search
Approximate spelling search
NEAR command
sort: to sort your
results by ascending or descending dates. For example sort:new
or sort:old
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