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Many of the news articles in our database have long since been scrubbed from the net. Now this excellent research tool is even better... How to use the new SOTT SuperSearch
When you type in a word or phrase, search will by default look for a match of your search term in the article Title, Author, and Summary fields. You can fine tune your search by specifying fields in which to search. Fine tuning usually speeds up your search and increases the probability of getting the most relevant search returns. To fine tune your search, just include one or more of the following terms in the search box before the word or phrase for which you want to search: intitle: -- searches in title of article only inauthor: -- searches in author field only insource: -- searches in source field only insummary: -- searches in summary field only intext: -- searches in main text field only incomment: -- searches in comment field only You may also search for articles that have different text in different fields by adding the word "AND" to your search. For example, if you want to search for an article that has the word "Bush" in the main text of the article and the word "evil" in the comment field of the article, just type: intext: Bush AND incomment: evil (Note that AND must be capitalised!!) If you want to search for more than one word, add a + (plus sign) before each of the words:+Bush +Rice This finds all articles that have "Bush" and "Rice". If you just search for: Bush Rice Then you will end up with all articles that will have either or both of the words "Bush" and "Rice". You can also exclude certain words by using a - (minus sign) as follows: +Bush +Neocons -Rice The above search string will find all articles with the words "Bush" and "Neocons", but without the word "Rice". "Bush fires Rice" Or: inauthor: Knight-Jadczyk AND incomment: "take that to the bank" Happy Searching! |
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