Search Tips

Check spelling

Make sure your search terms are spelled correctly. If Sound-alike matching is selected, the search engine will attempt to find words that sound similar to your search terms, but it is always best to try to spell the search terms correctly.

Use multiple words

Use multiple words when performing your search. The search results will return more refined results from several words than from a single word. For example, typing subsidized child care will return more relevant results than typing only child care.

Use similar words

The more similar words you use in a search, the more relevant results you will get back. For example, entering safe secure privacy security will give more results than just safe.

Use appropriate capitalization

Capitalize proper nouns. Lowercase words will match any case. For example, typing search will return all documents containing the words search, Search, and SEARCH. However, typing Search will only search for pages about the Atomz.com Search service.

Use quotation marks or select "Exact phrase"

With Match "Any word" selected you can use quotation marks to find words which must appear adjacent to each other, for example, "our pledge to you." Otherwise, the search results will include the word our, pledge, to, and the word you, but not necessarily in that order. The words may appear anywhere, and in any order, within the document.

Alternately, select Match "Exact phrase" without using quotation marks to find words which must appear adjacent to each other. Quotes are ignored if the "All words" or "Exact phrase" radio button is selected.

Use plus (+) or minus (-)

Use a plus sign when your search term or phrase must appear in the search results. Use a minus sign to indicate undesirable term(s). The plus sign tells the search engine that a certain word or phrase is required in the search results, and a minus sign indicates that a word or phrase must be absent in the search results.

Plus and minus can only be used when the Match "Any word" radio button is selected. Plus and minus are ignored if "All words" or "Exact phrase" radio button is selected.

Use wildcards

Wildcard searches can expand the number of matches for a particular request. The * character is used as the wildcard character.For instance, searching for wh* will find the words what, why, when, whether, and any other word that starts with wh. Searching for *her* will find the words here, whether, together, gathering, and any other word that contains her anywhere in the word.

Wildcards may be combined with the standard plus (+) and minus (-) modifiers, and quotes for phrases.+wh* -se*ch will find all pages which have a word that starts with wh and which does not contain a word that starts with se and ends with ch. "wh* are" will find the phrases where are, what are, why are, etc.

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