Advanced Search

The Swan Company - General Searching

• All searches are case insensitive - i.e. the case of the characters is not important.
  • FRED is the same as fred
• You can use the '*' wild card to find a broader match
  • world - will search for "world" and find titles that contain the WORD "world" anywhere in the title
  • wor* - will find titles that contain words that START with "wor" (e.g. work, world, wordt, words, etc.)
  • There isn't an "ends with" search
• Common words
  • We ignore common words and characters such as where, the, how, and other digits and letters which slow down your search without improving the results.

The Swan Company - Boolean Searching

• 'OR' Search
  • To find pages that include either of two search terms, add an OR between the terms
  • For example, here's how to search for a vacation in either London or Paris
    • vacation london OR paris
• 'AND' Search
  • To find pages that include both search terms, add an AND between the terms
  • For example, here's how to search for a vacation in either USA and Canada
    • vacation USA AND Canada