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Website Search Quick Tips and Examples
It's easy to search for content on our website, just type in a few words or phrases that you are looking for into the search box which appears at the top right of every page. Once you have typed in the word or phrase, click search.
Choosing Search Terms
Entering the right search terms is key to finding the information you want. Our search looks for pages and documents containing as many of these words and phrases you have searched for as possible. The results returned are ranked so that the pages and documents most relevant to your query are presented first. Don't worry about missing a page or document because it doesn't have one of the words in your search -- our search facility will return relevant results even if they don't contain all your query terms.
Excluded Characters
Unfortunately we have had to exclude certain characters from being used in the website search as they could make our website vulnerable to security attacks. We are not listing the excluded characters as this could help those attacking our website. If you use one of the excluded characters in your search it is removed and the search is performed using the rest of the search string provided. e.g. If # is an exluded character then 'number#1' is changed to 'number1' and then search results for the string 'number1' are provided. We do not expect that this will effect many people who use this site however if you have a trouble finding content because of excluded characters then please contact us.
Advanced Searching - Syntax
Our search technology has a simple query syntax which enables you to enhance the results returned without having to remember complex queries. The table below shows examples of the different techniques you can use to improve your search results.
| Operator | Action | Example |
"term1 and term2" |
Specifies that words should be adjacent | This search term returns all pages/documents where the words 'housing' and 'quality are adjacent "housing quality" |
| +term | Requires a term | This search term specifies that 'landlord' must be included in the results returned."Residential +landlord" |
| -term | Excludes documents containing a term | This search term returns all the pages/documents that contain the phrase "housing quality" but do NOT include the word waiting "housing quality" |
| title:term | Specifies that the term must be found in the title of the page/document | This search term returns all the pages/documents that contain the term 'waste' within the page/document title title:waste |
| term 1 | term2 | Searches the results of term1 with term2, ranking results by relevance to both term1 and term2 | This search term searches the results of a search for 'waste' with the term 'Loughborough'. The results are then ranked by relevance to both 'waste' and 'Loughborough' waste | loughborough |
| term1 || term2 | Searches the results of term1 with term2, ranking results only by relevance to term2 | This search term searches the results of a search for 'waste' with the term 'Loughborough'. The results are then ranked by relevance to 'Loughborough' only waste || loughborough |
What is Included in the Results
The search includes pages/documents from the following:
- Service standards
- Jobs
- Press Releases
The search does not include pages/documents from the following:
- Meetings & Decisions
