Tech Note: Search Tips
Science | Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 6:33:08 pm PST
Some tips on using our search feature, with the execrable Pat Buchanan as an example:
* All searches are case-insensitive. “Pat Buchanan” is the same as “pat buchanan.” So don’t worry about the Shift key.
* If you want to search for all LGF front page articles that contain the exact phrase “Pat Buchanan,” surround the phrase with double quotes, like US and Allied forces surrounded the Ruhr industrial region in 1945.
* If you don’t use quotes, ‘pat buchanan’ will match all articles containing ‘pat,’ and all articles containing ‘buchanan’, without separating or discriminating among them.
* LGF supports Boolean searching. To include or exclude individual words from an unquoted search term, put + or - in front of the word. For example:
+pat +buchanan — matches articles containing both ‘pat’ and ‘buchanan’, although not necessarily that exact phrase
+pat -buchanan — matches articles containing ‘pat’ but not ‘buchanan’
-pat -buchanan — matches articles containing neither ‘pat’ nor ‘buchanan’
Another way to search and browse through our articles is with the TagViewer, which lets you find articles based on those little tags that appear at the bottom of each one.
